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...teams exchanged scores for the first 20 minutes. At that point, with the contest tied at 4-4, the Great Danes pulled away with two goals to close out the frame with a 6-4 lead, besting Crimson senior netminder Kathryn Tylander, last week’s Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week...
...without much to cheer about.Jeomi Maduka, who leads Cornell in scoring and rebounding with 14.1 points and 7.6 rebounds per game, was conspicuously absent on Saturday night.During opening warm-ups, I scanned the Big Red layup lines, looking for Maduka. She had given Harvard fits in a February contest in Ithaca, pouring in 16 points and grabbing 11 boards in Cornell’s 85-61 win.Where was she?As it turns out, Maduka rushed home after Friday night’s heartbreaking 46-44 loss to Dartmouth—a defeat that thrust Harvard into a first-place...
...informed and thoughtful citizen, the much more interesting question at stake is less about demographics and more about the key skills required to be an effective president: established fluency in policy-speak versus the ability to bring down the rafters. At heart, is the presidential election a popularity contest...
...also sounded notes of frustration with officiating a high-stakes contest in which one team's players are essentially invisible. Wikileaks' founders - an international cadre of "Chinese dissidents, journalists, mathematicians and start-up company technologists" who are themselves anonymous - were a moving target for White. Despite his order, the site's cache of more than 1.2 million documents - among them, a U.S. operations manual for its Guantanamo Bay, Cuba facility - had been readily available at several mirror locations around the world, including domains registered in Belgium, the Christmas Islands and Germany, and at its numerical IP address...
...though the campaign has of late been saying that Clinton has to win just one of the two big states). But if she can pull it out, she gets what her own advisers describe as a chance to "reboot" her foundering campaign - and six weeks before the next big contest in Pennsylvania, in which she can try to regain the momentum that once made her look unstoppable for the Democratic nomination...