Word: upsetting
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PALO ALTO, Calif.--If Saturday night's victory by the Harvard women's basketball team was not the greatest upset in the history of college basketball, it was right up there. Harvard not only becomes the first 16 seed to win a game in NCAA Tournament history--men's or women's--but its victory also snaps Stanford's 59-game Maples Pavilion win streak...
Feaster leads Harvard in its quest for the upset. She finished the season leading the nation in scoring--to capture Harvard's first ever national scoring title--averaging 28.2 points per game and ended the year ranked 14th in the country in rebounding with 10.8 boards per contest...
...playoffs, things get a little more serious and the refs know that. I think the biggest upset of the season was Pfoho defeating Winthrop and Mather back-to-back in the playoffs--given the regular season officiating, I never would have thought that possible...
...applied math concentrator, I was upset by the 39. The number 39 is ambivalent in search of an identity. Unlike its numerically more unique neighbors of 37 and 41, it isn't quite prime. It isn't quite 40, a number which resonates with a comforting sense of stability and roundness...
Annan brings the same coolness to managing the U.N. bureaucracy that he does to handling diplomatic crises. Once, when Ruggie got upset at Annan for not cracking down on recalcitrant staff members, Annan asked Ruggie why he was panicking. "The only reason I am panicked is because you are not panicked," Ruggie said. Grinning, Annan responded, "Why do I need to panic when I have people like you to panic for me?" That affability often masks a tested steeliness. Officials who embarrassed Annan through their incompetence have found themselves in some of the world's least comfortable locations. An American...