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That sort of call from the hinterland got Washington's attention in 1991, when bookish Democrat Harris Wofford ran for the Senate on the health-care issue and pulled off a stunning upset over a two-time Pennsylvania Governor. The next year Bill Clinton deftly appropriated Wofford's message, vowing to "make health care affordable for every family," and toppled the first President Bush. But when Clinton tried to fix the problem--and almost lost his own presidency--he gave all the other politicians pause about making any such promises again...
Harvard’s upset of Stanford has not been forgotten in the national basketball conscience. An ESPN commentator’s reference to the game early in the selection show yesterday drew loud cheers from the Harvard players, who had donned black shirts with white letters that read, “Let’s Dance 2002,” on their backs...
...Tigers (15-9-3, 10-6-0) are hoping for a rebirth of sorts., praying that the regular season doesn’t matter once the playoffs begin, or at the very least, that they can revert to pre-Christmas form. Before the new year, Princeton upset top-ranked Dartmouth, 3-1, and downed Harvard in overtime...
After two students met with President Lawrence H. Summers to discuss the future of Latino studies at Harvard on Tuesday, Latino and black students said yesterday they are upset by Summers’ reported comments regarding ethnicity-based studies...
...underdog attitude will encourage Harvard to be more aggressive, which could help the Crimson upset the nationally-ranked Quakers and Mountain Hawks (No. 8 and No. 12, respectively) at the two-day event at Lehigh’s Stabler Arena beginning Saturday...