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...Upstart Duluth would go on to claim second place in the tournament, eventually losing to No. 5 New Hampshire in the championship game...
Luckily for Harvard, not one upstart, unranked team succeeded in winning a major conference tournament this year...
After Dartmouth, however, the ECAC appears to be a crapshoot. The traditional powers have all lost at least one key contributor--either to graduation or to the U.S. National Team--while upstart programs such as Niagara and St. Lawrence could still be too young to challenge for the conference title...
...supporting those machines has been the company's real cash cow. In the past year, however, Canon, IBM and German printer Heidelberger--which, ironically, purchased its technology from Xerox's old Rochester, N.Y., brother-in-arms, Kodak--have come up with a product to rival Xerox's. Though these upstart machines don't have as many bells and whistles, they're more than adequate for companies that increasingly prefer slimmed-down, more open technology that works better with all sorts of software programs. They have also handed customers some valuable bargaining leverage in dealing with Xerox...
Although four Ivy League teams qualified for the NCAA tournament last season, the only way to guarantee a spot in the Big Dance is to win the Ivy League championship. After an early blemish to upstart Brown, Harvard has regained the form it displayed in its 1999 championship campaign...