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Last year mid-season losses to both Queens and Massachusetts-both Eastern opponents-dropped Harvard into the bottom half of the draw. Thus instead of facing a weaker first-round opponent such as MIT or Boston College, Harvard was pitted against an always strong Brown team. As a result, for two years straight, the Bears have kept the Crimson out of the Eastern championship...
Last year mid-season losses to both Queens and Massachusetts-both Eastern opponents-dropped Harvard into the bottom half of the draw. Thus instead of facing a weaker first-round opponent such as MIT or Boston College, Harvard was pitted against an always strong Brown team. As a result, for two years straight, the Bears have kept the Crimson out of the Eastern championship...
Last year mid-season losses to both Queens and Massachusetts-both Eastern opponents-dropped Harvard into the bottom half of the draw. Thus instead of facing a weaker first-round opponent such as MIT or Boston College, Harvard was pitted against an always strong Brown team. As a result, for two years straight, the Bears have kept the Crimson out of the Eastern championship...
Despite such rhetoric, the battle over the UPS pension plan struck many observers as a far stickier issue. UPS pays more than $1 billion a year into 31 Teamster pension funds whose beneficiaries include workers at financially weaker companies. But UPS wants to pull out of the plan and set up a fund with the Teamsters solely for its own employees, which the company says could add 50% to its workers' retirement benefits. Not so fast, say the Teamsters, who want the contributions to continue being spread among more of its members and have refused to authorize a vote...
...does have flaws. First off, there are just too many tracks. Like many rappers these days, Wyclef should think hard about recording less and editing himself more. Most of the 24 songs on The Carnival are excellent, but it's a pain to have to skip past the weaker ones; it's the musical equivalent of having to throw out all those superfluous sections of the Sunday paper. The album also contains some nonmusical skits, concerned with subjects like being falsely accused of rape by groupies, that are supposed to be funny. They...