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...sealing the title for the Bears. You see, the team sharing first place with Brown is the Yale Bulldogs. If Yale wins on Saturday, they get their first piece of an Ivy title since 1989. If they lose, and Brown wins (they are playing Columbia, one of the weaker teams in the league), they finish in second place, and the trophy is sent to Providence. There are no playoffs; Saturday's game will, indeed, decide...

Author: By Aaron R. Cohen, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Harvard-Yale Football: Who Cares | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

...lifelong journalist, Grunwald--once editor-in-chief of Time Inc.--responded to the challenge with brisk attentiveness as much as apprehension. He read up on eye incisions that would make weaker men flinch, learned that James Thurber, after becoming blind, composed whole pages of prose in his head, and discovered that in ancient Egypt, medication for such problems might consist of urine, saliva, honey, the whites of eggs and "the milk of a woman who had borne only boys." Yet all the knowledge in the world could not erase the fact that the words and the paintings that had always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Inner Visions | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...along with a slew of potential problems faced by playing on grass, the Crimson has had difficulty winning against weaker teams all season...

Author: By Timothy Jackson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Field Hockey Prepares for ECACs | 11/12/1999 | See Source »

...pairings for the tournament, the top eight teams are divided into regions and seeded, and the rest of the teams are divided up into those eight regions based on geography. Although 16 teams get first-round byes, the seeded teams are guaranteed the weaker second-round opponent...

Author: By Peter D. Henninger, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: W. Soccer Claims Ivy Crown | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...other Ivy League action this weekend, Brown and Cornell both posted easy victories over weaker non-league opponents. In a battle of Ivy League cellar-dwellers, Princeton won big over Columbia...

Author: By David R. De remer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Football Remains in Four-way Tie On Top | 11/2/1999 | See Source »

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