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...House Speaker Newt Gingrich in New Hampshire on Sunday? Better hold onto the memory. Today, the old partisan Gingrich came out swinging with accusations that the White House has been lying aboutGOP proposals to reform Medicare. He also told a Manchester radio station that a group of "very bitter left-wing Democrats"pushing ethics complaints against himhas "no ideas about welfare, they have no ideas about health care, they have no ideas about crime and they don't have any ideas aboutbalancing the budget. The only thing they can do is smear...
Instead of exclamation points, there were question marks. And I turned bitter at this betrayal...
After the heavy's B.U. meet came a dual meet against Northeastern, which was a bitter disappointment for the No. 1 eight. The Huskies, who Radcliffe had topped back on April 1, edged the Black and White by three-tenths of a second. The second varsity boat got revenge, winning in three seconds, but that was not the way Radcliffe wanted to go into Sprints...
This woman's story perhaps most clearly illustrates the dilemma that Radcliffe seems to face today: the fact that for many alumnae, Radcliffe is a bitter remembrance of a time when they were not allowed equal treatment as students at Harvard. Yet that is not to say that when Harvard and Radcliffe merged in the '70s, equality swept into the river Houses and eradicated years of entrenched discrimination; women still found obstacles in the classroom, in their living environments and in their extracurricular activities. One editor at Newsweek recollected during a panel on women in the media...
...second defeat was perhaps the most bitter. After taking two of the first three games (15-8, 8-15, 15-2) the Crimson blew the match, dropping the fourth game, 14-16, and the fifth, 11-15. Harvard only won two out of seven five-game matches on the season...