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...about her opponent was leaked late in the race, accusations flew that Gillibrand actually lived in a New York City apartment, and both sides ran numerous negative TV commercials. Gillibrand was re-elected in 2008 with 62% of the vote - more than $10 million having been raised for that contest. Her district, the 20th, is heavily Republican...
...There is a contest between the forces of disorder and anomie and the forces of order and the rule of law. Since the mid-1970’s the Black community has been in a cultural civil war drawn largely, although not exclusively, along class lines until very recently when the Black middle class was sucked into the fray. The macro-structural socio-economic sources of this conflict were brilliantly documented in William Julius Wilson’s 1978 essay The Declining Significance of Race, which appeared just as the political and geographic isolation of the Black underclass from...
...block was the difference-maker Saturday, when a physical Big Green frontcourt held Crimson forwards senior Katie Rollins and sophomore Emma Markley in check. Rollins chipped in a solid eight points and six boards, but Markley, the team’s leading scorer at 14 points a contest, shot just 1-for-4 from the field for two points. Dartmouth center Darcy Rose and sisters Brittney and Margaret Smith doubled the forwards on every touch...
...Lewkowitz barely edged out Penn’s top swimmer in the event, finishing with a time of 9:35.54 and capturing the top spot for the Crimson.Apart from individual races, Harvard shone in the relay events as well, placing first in both of the day’s contests. The 200-yard medley relay team of Diekem, Jones, junior Simone Melillo and senior co-captain David Guernsey posted a winning 1:32.45 finish.The 200-yard freestyle relay team also captured first for the Crimson. Freshmen Nicholas Tan and Graham Frankel, junior Rick McKellar and sophomore Eric Taylor finished with...
During the presidential contest, Obama campaigned on the promise to reform a regulatory system that he claimed was partly to blame for the current economic crisis...