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Both will be on the sidelines for the Ivy Championship Series this weekend, which pits surprise Gehrig Division champ Penn against Rolfe Division upstart Brown. The Quakers, at 12-8 in Ivy play, finished one game up on Princeton, while Harvard, which also checked in at 12-8, wound up two games back of the Bears...
...upstart company providing the technology, Netvibes, announced yesterday the creation of more than 100 “universes,” widget-packed portals tailored for users such as washingtonpost.com addicts, Mandy Moore fanatics, or, in this case, Harvard students...
...with beer cans and stolen Kong signs, Lincoln’s Inn—the former home of a now defunct social group—was one of the only places on campus where students could escape the Bar at a bar. But since HL Central—an upstart networking group founded in 1999—merged with Lincoln’s Inn Society on March 20, the character of the building is in for a renovation. It was “a space that [was] not clearly Law School,” said Brandon L. Douglass, a second...
...explain his change of heart on abortion. John McCain calls himself a Reagan Republican, citing the fact that he entered politics in the early 1980s as a Reagan supporter. Newt Gingrich, waiting on the sidelines, compares the current Republican leadership unfavorably to Reagan - whom he supported as an upstart G.O.P. Representative...
...unchallenged power was certainly evident across Egypt on referendum day. After casting a "yes" vote at the Fouad Galal school on the east bank of the Nile River in Cairo, Diab Abolibda, a 59-year-old engineer, described how in the presidential election two years ago he favored upstart candidate Ayman Nour over Mubarak. Asked how he felt now that runner-up Nour was serving a five-year prison term for election fraud, a verdict and sentence criticized by many democracy advocates as political punishment for brashly challenging the president's authority, Abolibda let out a hearty laugh and exclaimed...