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...paper, it was a success.The Harvard women’s basketball team won its second consecutive Ivy League title in 2008—the 11th in the program’s history and third in the last four years—but ultimately, the season was incomplete. After controlling its own destiny for an outright title in the league’s final weekend, the Crimson wound up sharing the conference crown with Dartmouth and Cornell and falling in an Ivy playoff—and losing out on a return trip to the NCAA tournament. “Our ultimate...
...also represented his team exceptionally well in his final meet as a Harvard swimmer, the NCAA Championships. For the second year in a row, Rathgeber received All-American status for his performance in the 200 IM, finishing in sixth place with a time of 1:45.61. He also placed 11th in the 400 IM, swimming the race in 3:47.65 and earning an All-American honorable mention in the event.Rathgeber’s individual successes this season led to seven All-Ivy League First Team selections. Rathgeber also achieved three celebrated personal honors towards the end of the season?...
Preparation for a first-rate capital defense can often take hundreds of hours, including an extensive investigation of the accused's childhood, mental health, drug abuse history and so on. But the law does not promise a first-rate defense. As a panel of judges from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals said in denying Osborne's request for a new trial, "for a petitioner to show deficient performance" by an attorney, "he must establish that no competent counsel would have taken the action that his counsel did take." And how do you show that? "There are no absolute rules...
...neither Mostiler nor the State of Georgia was ever pressed on the matter. State courts ruled that Osborne waited too long to raise the issue, and federal courts deferred to that decision. The 11th Circuit panel closed the matter in dry and technical terms: "The state trial court relied upon Georgia procedural rules in denying Osborne relief on this claim. As such, the claim is barred from federal review...
...Plouffe said. "We're not going to support something that gives her too many delegates? We all last year played by the rules. It was only after the fact when they needed the delegates that they tried to change the rules. I don't think you can at the 11th hour change the rules that you try to live by because it benefits you." But Obama's stance on the issue, like his opponent's, has just as much to do with politics as principle; the Obama campaign clearly doesn't want Clinton to close the delegate gap enough that...