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...heading into the fourth quarter down, 17-6, Pizzotti buckled down to notch three final-frame touchdowns—one by air, two by land—to edge out the Crusaders, 25-24. He finished the day with 370 passing yards in the spectacular comeback.In the next contest against Brown, Pizzotti kept a drive alive as the clock wore down, setting Harvard up for a touchdown to bring the team within two. But a failed two-point conversion resulted in a 24-22 loss to the Bears.As the season progressed, that loss to Brown began to fester, nagging...
Simon Hix, a professor at the London School of Economics and author of What's Wrong with the European Union and How to Fix It, observes that the elections tend to serve as referenda on national political issues rather than addressing European ones. "It's not a genuine contest for power at the European level," he says. (See pictures of London...
...Members of the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) voted this week to form a political party and contest Thailand's next general election. The head of the still-unnamed party is expected to be movement leader Sondhi Limthongkul, 61, a formerly bankrupt media magnate who has accrued various enemies in a long public career. Sondhi was wounded in an assassination attempt in April that he blamed on corrupt politicians and military men. Millions of viewers regularly watch his satellite television channel ASTV, which openly advocates for the PAD and could provide the new party with a potentially huge voter...
...actually played yourself in another Hollywood movie about the contest, Akeelah...
...university prepares once more to solicit nominations for the poetry professorship, some potential contenders may be deterred by the scrutiny the contest is likely to attract. Sexual politics look certain to play as key a role in the new election as in the last. "I wish the next Professor of Poetry the very best," said Padel, concluding her press appearance at Hay. "And I hope she's a woman...