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Fencing at home and riding the momentum earned in its last two wins over Columbia and Brandeis, the Crimson dominated the Jumbos, 22-5. Harvard jumped on the win from the first bout and did not cede a single weapon to Tufts, winning epee, 9-0, foil, 8-1, and saber...

Author: By Samuel C. Scott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Fencing's Winning Streak Continues | 12/14/2004 | See Source »

Both Stinetorf and fellow co-captain Anne Austin won 3-0 in foil, while sophomore Arielle Nagler took a 2-1 victory. Stinetorf did not cede a touch in her match...

Author: By Samuel C. Scott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Fencing's Winning Streak Continues | 12/14/2004 | See Source »

...turn his attention to the Pentagon, which controls eighty percent of the nation’s $40 billion intelligence budget. The 9/11 Commission Report recommended that Congress create a National Director of Intelligence (NDI), and empower the position with budgetary authority. Rumsfeld, however, isn’t eager to cede any power to a new NDI. Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee are currently deadlocked with their Senate counterparts on this issue. A bi-partisan Senate bill would strip Rumsfeld of some of his budgetary powers and transfer them to the new NDI, but the House Republicans aren?...

Author: By Sasha Post, | Title: Failures of Intelligence | 11/17/2004 | See Source »

Third thing I know for sure: Democrats cannot cede values to the Republicans. The liberal conventional wisdom that Kerry lost because millions of homophobic, fundamentalist rednecks emerged from thousands of trailer parks to vote for the first time is nonsense. Bush won majorities not just of white men and evangelicals, but of white women, married people, high school and college graduates, couples with children, voters who make above $50,000, people over thirty and weekly churchgoers. The president increased his share of the Latino vote by seven points, the African-American vote by two points and the Jewish vote...

Author: By Brian M. Goldsmith, | Title: Our America | 11/16/2004 | See Source »

...Play nice. In the first debate, particularly while running an even-though-you-don’t-like-my-record-the-other-guy-will-murder-your-children campaign, President Bush should have known not to cede one of his biggest strengths: likeability. A tough comparative message delivered without the occasional Reaganesque wink, grin or chuckle can seem mean. That night, polling put Kerry’s “personal favorability” rating above Bush’s for the first time. And the president’s scowling, stammering arrogance—his shock and awe that someone...

Author: By Brian M. Goldsmith, | Title: Campaign Postmortem | 10/28/2004 | See Source »

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