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...Harvard backcourt will find it difficult to match the Irish’s speed, but senior guard Kevin Rogus wil look to contend with Notre Dame on the perimeter. The returning star from the backcourt, Rogus lit up then-No. 6 Stanford for 22 points and four three-pointers last season. Rogus shot 34 percent behind the arc last year, averaging 14.7 points per game, good for sixth in the Ivy League...
...will they contend with the second Bush term? "We'll get out there on issues like media consolidation and campaign-finance reform," says Boyd. Judicial nominations will also be a major issue. "Our real influence is in getting citizens engaged," says Blades. "Looking at new voters being registered, it makes me feel very optimistic that the system is becoming vibrant again...
...likes of which has never been seen, and we had a good candidate who stood toe to toe with the President and bested him in three debates," sighs Harold Ickes, who ran two of the cash-rich outside groups that sprang up in this election to help the Democrats contend with the G.O.P. fund-raising advantage. "We had all that, and we still lost. People are going to ask, 'What do we have to do?' There's going to be a real aftershock...
...Rosenberg is right, it could mean that when it comes to partisan acrimony, Bush's first term will be remembered as a period of relative harmony compared with his second. In that kind of environment, anyone hoping to contend for leadership of the Democrats and the 2008 nomination will be under pressure to clash early and often with both Bush and the G.O.P.-controlled Congress. The result could be something very close to a four-year campaign for the presidency...
ANALYSIS: UVM has a long way to go before it’ll be good enough to contend in either the ECAC or Hockey East, its future home, but a crop of young stars should have coach Kevin Sneddon ’92 beaming. Freshman goaltender Joe Fallon was electric in net last weekend, recording 69 saves to earn a win and a tie against then-No. 1 Minnesota-Duluth. He must continue his string of impressive performances, else the Catamounts, weak offensively, shouldn’t expect similar results in the future...