Word: contestable
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...enters a decisive phase.Tomorrow, the eyes of the Ivies will turn to Lavietes Pavilion—second place hosts first place as league-leader Cornell (17-6, 9-1) faces the Crimson. Tonight, Harvard faces the challenge of fourth-place Columbia (9-15, 6-4)—a contest of equal importance.“We’re taking it one game at a time,” coach Kathy Delaney-Smith said. “Saturday’s game is not more important than Friday’s game for us.”Harvard heads...
...targets of opportunity that the campaign may have missed. It was Bill Clinton, aides say, who suggested deploying himself to campaign in Alabama, even though Hillary was certain to lose the popular vote. Sure enough, Obama won by a comfortable 14 points - but Hillary came out of the contest with 25 delegates to Obama...
...Freeze College Magazine ended their “Freeze Freshman” contest for the 2008 “Mr. Harvard Freshman,” they tallied a whooping 6,021 votes—almost three times the number submitted in this past Undergraduate Council election. Ad Board reform is apparently not that glamorous...
...Democratic opponent Jackie Speier, a state senator and 30-year veteran of local politics, would be thinner than a computer chip. “It is not possible,” he said. “Certainly, we would lose this race and not just one in a tight contest, but we would lose in a big way.” Lessig said he would direct the money that had been donated for his campaign to his “Change Congress” movement, which aims to get politicians to refuse money from lobbyists, ban “earmarks...
...teammates, who used a solid team effort to hand the Quakers an 89–79 defeat, marking the first time since the 1986–87 season that the Crimson has defeated the two perennial basketball powers in the same weekend. In Saturday’s contest, Lin finished with 21 points, six rebounds, four assists, three steals, and a block. It was the first time in the sophomore standout’s young career that he had tallied at least 20 points on back–to–back nights. He was 2-of-2 from behind...