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Harvard gave the Quakers no mighty scare like it did in last year's 66-65 Penn win. Harvard took an early 3-0 lead on one of junior Mike Gilmore's five three-pointers, but watched Penn blitz out to a 22-7 lead by the midway point of the first half...
...prolonged post- electoral shock, that she didn't understand November's results, that she was in denial, that she was rethinking her role as First Lady. But there was no self-doubt in the Hillary Clinton who charged back onto the political radar screen in a four-day media blitz last week. Though there were subtle signs of an effort to retool her image, she came across as cheerful, confident and as proudly unapologetic about her role as ever. The Republicans? Let her at 'em. She told a sympathetic crowd after accepting an award from the National Women...
With a new student group, an aggressive fundraising campaign and a publicity blitz ranging from campus postering to the pages of the Boston Globe, Radcliffe this month launched a new crusade for female faculty hiring at Harvard...
...tablets. At least one Republican, however, looked genuinely unfazed: Representative Newt Gingrich of Georgia, who more than anyone else led the ) G.O.P. in tapping voter anger. "Newtron," as Democrats now call him, weeks ago drafted detailed plans to assume office as Speaker of the House, not only plotting a blitz of new bills but also hiring moving companies to help the Democrats clean out their desks and preparing the walking papers for more than 3,000 Democratic staffers. Like some kindly Scrooge, Gingrich explained that he wanted to let the staff members know where they stood as soon as possible...
...full-page ads in more than 40 newspapers, USAir announced it had hired a retired Air Force general to oversee its flight operations and a team of auditors to review itssafety record. The blitz, arranged to counter public unease after six fatal accidents in the last five years as the nation nears the frantic Thanksgiving travel period, follows by one day disclosures that a USAir foreman was told of unusual noises heard by first-leg passengers on theUSAir Boeing 737before it crashed outside Pittsburgh Sept. 8, killing all 132 passengers. The foreman, who approached the plane's captain, was told...