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...Harvard managed to turn its season around in its Ivy opener at defending champion Cornell. Junior pitcher Chelsea Thoke and Cornell sophomore Nicole Zitarelli were locked in a scoreless pitchers' duel until Abeles finally broke the stalemate with a solo game-winning shot in the fifth inning. Thoke pitched hitless ball for the full six innings of the rain-shortened game to earn...
...That day, students voted in referenda to downsize the council to 50 members but not to increase its funding by upping the term bill fee from $20 to $50--ensuring next year's council will be small and broke...
...first year friendships were cemented by a more indigenous delicacy. An entryway-mate brought over Darwin's buttercreams one afternoon. We broke off tiny pieces together, licked around the edges of the edges to scoop up the filling with the points of our tongues. The doughy chocolate cookies (almost very thin brownies) sandwich four major types of buttercream: raspberry, mocha, peanut butter and mint. Thick as icing, this cookie filling makes Oreo cream taste like Olestra. Since then, I've learned that the cookies come chilled but are better a little warm. They last longer that way; you can break...
...requiring early elections. Although an early poll would almost certainly shut down the peace process for the year, the dispute was unrelated to any concessions Barak may be planning to make to the Palestinians or to Syria. The ultra-orthodox Shas party, the second largest in the ruling coalition, broke ranks after Barak turned down its funding demands for the religious school system the party oversees. Although Shas voted with some conservative parties opposed to Barak's peace proposals, the bill has to pass two further readings before becoming law, and the party's leaders made clear they would return...
...honcho Jon Corzine put $34 million of his own money into all the right pockets. He greased New Jersey Democrat "party-builders" and got out the vote instead of blowing it all on advertising (though he did plenty of that too - $34 million allows you a certain flexibility). He broke all records for Senate campaign spending, and the main event is yet to come. And he got 58 percent of the vote. Do we have a campaign finance problem...