Word: upset
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Coming off a stirring 11-4 upset over then-No. 16 Yale, which ended a four-game slide for Harvard, the Crimson (5-6, 2-3 Ivy) returned to the wrong side of the scoreboard, dropping an 8-5 decision to No. 8 UMass (10-2, 4-1 ECAC...
...enough pointing fingers. Though the BPD and the College deserve some blame for this major upset, the bottom line is that the onus was on the UC to bring this campus an event that would immeasurably enhance an already well-attended, worthwhile Springfest—particularly considering the last UC’s efforts to secure a considerably enlarged budget...
...later, the fugitive ex-champion, sought by U.S. authorities for violating U.N. sanctions on Yugoslavia (in 1992 he played a high-profile rematch with Boris Spassky in Belgrade), is whisked out of a Japanese jail where he was awaiting extradition and offered shelter in Reykjav?k. No one is too upset about this arrangement because he's clearly a sick man. His insane rants about Jews and America, his choice of a squalid, furtive life by a man who could have lived in princely admiration, his paranoia--he had the fillings in his teeth removed because if "somebody took a filling...
...Kyoko Mori, who coordinates the English Department’s creative writing program, Engell’s push comes partly in response to an unusually high degree of dissatisfaction from students whose creative thesis applications were rejected this year. Playwrights in particular, she said, were “really upset...
...Guthrie has become the poster boy for China's antipiracy campaign. Last week, a Shanghai court sentenced the 38-year-old to 30 months in prison. (Two local accomplices and another American were also jailed.) Still, Guthrie plainly likes China: his lawyer says his client is "really more upset" that he will be deported after completing the jail term...