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...numerous. The Crimson blew any chance it had at the Ivy League title by losing four-straight games to Brown two weekends ago. But Harvard proved its resilient character this past weekend against the Rolfe Division’s best. The Crimson bounced back from Game 1 blowouts to beat Dartmouth in the nightcaps of each doubleheader. The Crimson capped off its season by coming back from a 7-0 deficit to beat Northeastern, 16-13, on Tuesday.13-28 doesn’t exactly cleanse the palette of the bad taste left by 10-30. But there?...

Author: By Loren Amor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AMOR PERFECT UNION: When A Record Can Be Deceiving | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

Ronald Reagan beat Roosevelt's 24-hour effectiveness record when the 52 U.S. diplomats held hostage by Iranian militants for 444 days were released on Jan. 20, 1981 - the same day on which he took office. Reagan's next 99 days were a bit more subdued, but they still featured $41.4 billion in proposed budget cuts, large tax breaks, the formation of an oversight council to combat government corruption and a dramatic assassination attempt. When John Hinckley Jr. shot Reagan on March 30, 1981, the President's approval rating jumped as high as 68%, but by the 100-day mark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 100-Day Benchmark: It All Started with Napoleon | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

...altered everyone's calculation of what is now possible. Assuming that the interminable Minnesota recount battle finally ends with Al Franken being awarded the Senate seat - he holds a 312-vote lead - the Democrats will have a 60-vote Senate majority. That's the magic number it takes to beat back a Republican filibuster and, at least in theory, push through Barack Obama's big-ticket agenda items. Not since Jimmy Carter's days has a President's party had that kind of numerical leverage in the Senate. (Read about the top 10 political defections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Specter's Big Switch Leaves the Senate | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

...sensual Latin number comes first, and Oppenheimer takes her position, intense focus evident on her face. She joins her partner and sways to the beat...

Author: By Laura M. Fontanills, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Freshman Dances Off the Beaten Path | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

...decline of her first studio led Oppenheimer to begin dancing at The Beat, a dance company in her hometown of Berkley, California. There, she was exposed to rhythm tap, a style that incorporates jazz rhythms developed on the city streets and that is vastly different from the more common Broadway...

Author: By Laura M. Fontanills, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Freshman Dances Off the Beaten Path | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

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