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...schedule this year,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said. “They’re peaking in some respects, every respect other than actually finding a way to win tight, close games against good teams.”Indeed, the Quakers will come into their contest with Harvard desperate for a win, after playing a total of four overtimes in their last three games, all resulting in stinging losses.“We’re putting a considerable amount of [practice] time into overtime contexts,” Murphy said. “We?...
Going up against the third-best rushing defense in the Ancient Eight, expect Dawson to eclipse Marinaro late in the second quarter. And Liam O’Hagan and Corey Mazza should feast on a secondary allowing upwards of 235 yards in the air per contest...
...Democrats' victory will be viewed as historic not just for the size and the breadth of the win. Pelosi will take the helm as the country's first woman Speaker, the person directly behind the vice president for succession to the Presidency, at a moment of key contest between the branches of government and deep divide in the country over the war in Iraq and the fight against international terrorism. How President Bush learns to deal with the gentlewoman from San Francisco will be a key story of the rest of his presidency...
...ground for national candidates, including the last two Presidents. The party that controls the governors' mansions is particularly important in the years before a presidential election, as a governor usually has a powerful statewide organization he or she can put at the service of his party in a national contest...
...suburbs outside of Philadelphia have become one of the key battlegrounds of 2006, with three close House races, and the contest between Democrat Lois Murphy and incumbent Republican Jim Gerlach is perhaps the tightest of them all. Gerlach eked out a victory in 2004 against Murphy, collecting 51% of the vote. To hold his seat, he is trying to focus the race on local issues like the federal money for local roads he's brought home, and at the same time trying to link Murphy with Nancy Pelosi, the San Francisco lawmaker likely to become Speaker of the House...