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...weeks ago, the team received its 2008 championship rings and watched its title banner rise to the rafters at Lavietes Pavilion. As the seniors surveyed the banners that commemorate Crimson title squads of old, they couldn’t name the years its predecessors had shared the title. It didn’t matter. For this veteran group, it’s not enough...
...more than two hours after CNN announced the results of the presidential election.” A video on the campus daily’s website depicted the Harvard University Band leading scores of tone-deaf revelers in an exultant rendition of the “Star-Spangled Banner,” preceding a chorus of “U-S-A” which typically one would expect to hear at a Republican Party rally in Flyover Country. With the election of Obama, otherwise only tepidly-patriotic liberals could not contain their affection for America...
...Harvard band leads a rendition of "the Star-Spangled Banner," and students chant "U-S-A" late Tuesday night after Barack Obama's election...
...more than 4 million people had clicked on a Facebook-sponsored banner to indicate that they had voted. About 2 million people had "donated" their online status to broadcast which candidate they supported. Other users posted links to a variety of "get out the vote" themed YouTube videos, including one featuring a group of dancing kids singing a buoyant song called "You Can Vote However You Like...
...months, the debate over opening up Mexico's petroleum industry to foreign companies raged in the streets. Thousands of riot police held back screaming protesters from invading the Senate. Mammoth rallies screamed that the president was a puppet, selling its nationalized oil wealth out to the gringos. Banner-bearing lawmakers opposed to the president's proposal camped with sleeping bags on the podium of Congress, shutting down the legislature for weeks, as the arguments went back and forth, for and against giving international oil giants the right to sink deep wells in Mexican territory and waters, long the sacrosanct monopoly...