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...sitting tall in the saddle again. Six months after his re-election to the French presidency, Jacques Chirac is out to shoot down those who presumed to write off his country as a serious international player. Over the past two weeks, Chirac forced the Bush Administration toward a weaker U.N. resolution on Iraq; he bushwhacked would-be reformers of the E.U.'s costly Common Agricultural Policy (cap), thus preserving lucrative subsidies for French farmers. In September he sent troops to Africa to prop up a threatened regime in France's former colony, Ivory Coast. These days, Chirac is riding...
...ECAC is going to be better this year,” Taylor said. “Our league was good last year, but there aren’t a whole lot of teams that got weaker. It’s a good sign for the strength of our league that there were very few teams last year that were driven by their senior classes...
...competition for at-large berths to the NCAA tournament appears to be weaker than last year, but stronger than when Harvard made the tournament with a 12-5 overall record and 6-1 Ivy mark two years...
Princeton has an offense that has piled up goals against the weaker teams in the Ivies, but Harvard expects that its defense, which has given up the fewest goals in the league this season behind junior goalkeeper Katie Zacarian, can hold strong. Harvard is also one of only a handful of teams nationwide that hasn’t lost by more than a goal all season...
...have had their sights set on Harvard from day one. Thus Harvard, in accepting such a student, might have to consider that he spent more time practicing the flute, than, perhaps, studying for the SATs—and this fact does not make the flutist a weaker candidate. If, as Princeton’s former President Harold Shapiro said, admissions are at least partly based on “demonstrated leadership, hard work, initiative and commitment,” then there is no reason that athletics should not be considered a strong component to an application. If not, then similar...