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...Crimson struggled to come back, Brown managed to hold the ball for 10:10 despite scoring just three points. The Bears began their field goal drive with 25 seconds remaining in the third quarter, holding the ball for 6:31 and scoring with 8:54 left in the contest. After getting the ball back on a Harvard punt with 7:46 left in the game, Brown ran only six plays and gained just 17 yards, but took advantage of the new 40-second play clock to run 3:01 off the clock before the Crimson’s final possession...
...into the Wigglesworth common room, leaving little room even to stand. Upwards of 100 students gathered at the Student Organization Center at Hilles as part of an event put on by the Black Students Association. And, of course, dorm and House televisions across campus were tuned in. While this contest will be the first time that most undergraduates can vote in a presidential election, some students said that they have never witnessed a fair election period. Before the candidates took the podiums, a student from Ethiopia, Ammanuel G. Gebeyehu ’12, explained, “I actually want...
...front of 80 million viewers. Other options for McCain to go "hot" on foreign policy: make news by attacking some aspect of the Bush Administration's record, either its early strategy in Iraq or its high-handed refusal to take climate change seriously. Alternately, he could get into a contest with Obama over who has the mettle to force Iran to abandon its nuclear ambitions. "They need a game changer," says Reed...
...better than expected, and their vaunted offense—which didn’t live up to the hype in Brown’s 17-7 win over Stonybrook—certainly has the capacity to explode. Harvard coach Tim Murphy has even acknowledged that Saturday’s contest will be one of the Crimson’s toughest three matchups this season (along with last Friday’s win over Holy Cross and The Game).But I have to give the reigning champs the benefit of the doubt, especially after they showed last week in their fourth...
...campaign, ushering in “war room” tactics that stayed with the Democrats for more than a decade. And worst of all, with Al Gore as the party’s new standard-bearer, it seemed like the GOP might be able to win the ultimate contest this time around.For many Democrats, the logical conclusion was that only bullying could answer bullying: substance is great, the thought went, but bite is best. Since then, Dems have gone through two losing presidential campaigns and one Swift Boat political ad disaster, all of which seemed to hammer the point...