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...Crimson books, Dawson holds it.With all the excitement swirling around the senior tailback, it’s easy to forget that Harvard has a game to play and a league championship to fight for. The Crimson finds itself in a three-way race for the title, and must beat the Quakers to have any chance of reeling it in.“All hyperbole aside, Penn’s as good a team as we’ve played on our schedule this year,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said. “They’re peaking...
...stick around for the Black Keys” was met with many an anxious yell. When Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney finally emerged, crowd noise reached its peak. Auerbach riffed his way colossally into “Thickfreakness,” the title track of their 2003 release, Carney beat furiously on his spare drum kit, and the tone was set for the rest of the night. Auerbach, if not a guitar god then surely a demi-god, let loose even more than on the band’s four full-length albums, taking the unchained punch of the band?...
...battleground races went blue. Top G.O.P. leaders fought off tough challenges in New York and Ohio. Tough pol Tom Reynolds of upstate New York threw off his entanglement in the Mark Foley scandal to beat populist millionaire Jack Davis, and Ohio's Deborah Pryce, a centrist in the House leadership, pulled out her tough race against Mary Jo Kilroy. And in the tight House race in Connecticut's fourth district, Chris Shays was leading Diane Farrell in a death-defying G.O.P. win in hostile territory...
Pushed over the top by a surge of support from the cities, Democrat Claire McCaskill narrowly beat incumbent Republican Jim Talent to become the next Senator from Missouri. Her victory appeared all the more dramatic because McCaskill had trailed Talent from the time the first results were announced, at 9 p.m., until shortly after midnight. But as the final votes poured in from the state's two major cities, St. Louis and Kansas City, McCaskill pulled ahead, beating Talent by just 42,000 of the 2 million votes cast...
...first victory in years for a battered Democratic Party in Missouri. Ever since Talent narrowly beat Jean Carnahan to join the Senate in 2002, the party has lost control of the governor's office and the state legislature in a series of close elections...