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This year's presidential contest may be losing its suspense, but the battle for the House of Representatives has rarely been such a nail biter. Analysts now say Bill Clinton's comeback and Newt Gingrich's blunders have given the Democrats at least an even chance of picking up the 19 seats they need for a majority. But they probably cannot count on getting more than a few to spare beyond that. Whichever party wins the House may find itself with the narrowest margin in decades...
Last year's matchup saw the Crimson lose a nail-biter here in Cambridge by the score of 28-24. Harvard still leads the series overall 34-5-1 in Ivy League play, and will definitely be looking to smash a few facemasks in New York. SPORTS CUBE PREDICTS Michael E. Ginsberg, Assoc. Sports Ed. Harvard 27 Columbia 24 Todd F. Braunstein, President Columbia 7 Harvard 2 Elizabeth M. Angell, Assoc. Mag. Editor Columbia 21 Harvard 14 Jeffrey N. Gell, Senior Editor Harvard 20 Columbia...
...this space that corgis appear to be put together with parts borrowed from a number of other dogs--the parts, as it happens, that the other dogs were quite happy to pass along. Perot himself complained to CNN not long ago simply because William Kristol, the neocon sound biter, said on a CNN program that he believes Perot to be insane...
...second match, it dropped a nail-biter to Hartford. It lost a 15-7 opening game, won a 15-11 game, dropped a 15-8 game, won a 15-10 game and then lost a 15-8 contest...
...cares about the reappearance of genocide in Europe. Now he may be paying the price for caring. The member of Congress is Frank McCloskey, a Democrat and a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee. He is in his second term, and his reelection bid looks to be a nail-biter. His one previous reelection fight also came down to the wire...