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...fight for the matron vote can get rough. Senator Jim Talent, the Missouri incumbent who faces a hard contest against state auditor Claire McCaskill, has spent heavily on ads accusing her of failing to investigate abusive nursing homes. And last week in Virginia, Republicans spent more than $1 million on TV ads attacking challenger James Webb for, among other things, a 1979 article opposing women in combat and his novels, whose raunchy sex scenes incumbent George Allen called "demeaning to women." This close to Election Day, there are still plenty of votes to scrap for: a recent Missouri poll found...
...woman walked into a polling place in Peoria, Ill. last week and proceeded to use one of the new electronic voting machines set up for early voting. She logged on, went through each contest and seemed to be making her choices. After reviewing each race, the machine checked to see if she was satisfied with her selections and wanted to move on. Each time, she pressed YES, and the machine progressed to the next race. When she was done, a waving American flag appeared on the screen, indicating that her votes had been cast and recorded...
HANOVER, N.H.-The No. 12/11 Harvard men's hockey team fell 5-2 to Dartmouth in Friday night's season-opening contest between the longtime ECAC rivals. Sophomore Jimmy Fraser put Harvard on the board 9:34 into the first period with a 4-on-4 tally, but Dartmouth evened the score less than two minutes later and never looked back, coasting to a comfortable 5-2 advantage by the end of the second period. Crimson senior netminder Justin Tobe was peppered with close-range shots and ended the night with 24 saves for the loss. Despite outshooting Dartmouth...
...your app is in the mail, though it’s not clear whether an untruthful student would lose his degree after graduating. But what about other skeletons in your closet? In 1995, the University revoked the admission of a Harvard admit after discovering that she had pled no contest to voluntary manslaughter after allegedly beating her mother to death with a lead candlestick five years earlier. A creepy example, but a reminder that Harvard knows...
...thing, however. The open question is how much that impact will be felt in key races around the country. In New Jersey, Democratic incumbent Bob Menendez and Republican Tom Kean, who are both against gay marriage but for civil unions, are in a virtual tie in a crucial contest, and a Kean victory would almost certainly mean Republicans retained control of the Senate. But a Rutgers-Eagleton poll in June found 50% of people in the state favored gay marriage, while 44% opposed. And New Jersey is heavily Democratic, so it?s hard to see this decision putting Kean over...