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...Normally columnists will warn about “trap games” in which good teams mail it in against seemingly overmatched opponents, which in turn take advantage of this sluggishness and pull off an upset...
...only a projection!” In their enclave in the Trustman Lecture Hall at the IOP, the outnumbered Republicans prepare for a night of watching election results in hostile territory. They sit down with their laptops, McCain-Palin buttons, and cold pizza, hoping for a major upset. The sounds of cheering Obama fans at the Election Night Party in the adjacent JFK Jr. Forum are only somewhat muted. But the prospects of an upset grow dimmer as the projection screen in front of the room reports one blue state after another. For Colin J. Motley...
...junior concentrator, she can decide whether or not she wishes to finish the concentration through the old requirements or through one of the new tracks. While she said that she is happy that she now has so many choices within one concentration, she is also upset that now that students can choose not to write theses. The History and Science concentration depends on scholarship, she said, and the thesis is an instrumental part of the learning experience...
...men’s soccer team found itself down 1-0 to Columbia. The Lions (3-12-1, 1-5 Ivy), who had already pulled off wins against then-No. 19 Penn as well as against annual powerhouse and then-No. 6 UC Santa Barbara, could smell another big upset. Instead of panicking, the Crimson (11-4, 5-1) gave a demonstration of the resilience that has brought the team to within one game of the Ivy League title.Six different players got on the scoresheet for Harvard who came back to rip Columbia 6-1 Saturday afternoon at Ohiri Field...
...said the press was also swayed by the possibility of America electing its first black President, who could get the country "past the old racial baggage we have lugged around for so many years." "I understand that appeal," Salter continued, sounding neither bitter nor upset. "I think McCain probably, as you can tell from his speech last night, felt part of that a little himself. And I think that required the press, then, to start rationalizing McCain into something he wasn...