Word: upset
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Resting many of its top performers in preparation for this upcoming weekend’s Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League Championships, the No. 22 Harvard men’s swimming and diving team may have seemed ripe for an upset heading into this past weekend’s ECAC Championships held at the University of Pittsburgh. But thanks to the efforts of several Crimson underclassmen, Harvard (9-0, 8-0 EISL, 7-0 Ivy) continued its unblemished season and successfully defended its ECAC crown from a year ago, clearing the 26-team field by an astounding 60-point margin and finishing...
...Harvard women’s squash team left its mark on the CSA Individual Championships at the Naval Academy with both titles and upsets, and for the second consecutive year returned to Cambridge with some hardware for the trophy case. Sophomore Johanna Snyder, snubbed by the selection committee for placement in the A draw, stormed through the 51-person Holleran Cup, or “B” Bracket as the No. 1 seed to seize the title. “I was a little disappointed not to be in the main draw,” Snyder said...
Part of Nader's problem is that the Democrats are so good at self-righteous anger. Perot cost the first Bush the 1992 election, but no one got too upset when he ran again in 1996. People just ignored him. That's how third parties are supposed to work...
...tree near the eruption site. Such beliefs have an enduring appeal in this part of Indonesia, where religion is a syncretic mix of Islam and animism, and Lusi has drawn mystics from Bali and Borneo, who have sacrificed chickens, monkeys and even a cow to mollify the upset spirit. The government's engineering team has tried similar tactics; a spokesman says the group has hired diviners to pray for rain to wash the mud away...
...call appears to be falling on deaf ears. Turkey is awash in fervent nationalism - newspapers are emblazoned with military heroics and jingoistic slogans. The government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is loath to upset a cozy alliance with the far-right Nationalist Action Party, which helped it push through a recent law allowing headscarves in universities. Although thousands of Kurds in the southeast have taken to the streets in recent days to protest the invasion, there has otherwise been virtually no public opposition (with the exception of Ersoy's comment) to the invasion. A political solution to the Kurdish...