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BOSTON—The Harvard men’s basketball team’s fifth straight loss, a 76-73 defeat at Northeastern, came despite a very efficient night for the Crimson on the offensive...
...first of this month. The nine scoreless minutes to open the game doomed the Georgian team to its third loss in a row. The Owls will not play between now and the Harvard matchup.Georgia Tech posted a 44-point second half to come from behind and defeat Mississippi State, thanks in part to senior forward Janie Mitchell’s 23-point game, her forth 20-plus point game on the season. This marked the Yellow Jackets sixth victory in program history over a Southeastern Conference opponent. GT’s arsenal holds a second shooting threat in senior guard...
That pressing need for innovation is the ultimate challenge for everyone involved in the green sector, including the venture capitalists funding it. Some environmentalists like to say that we already have the technology we need to defeat global warming. This is not true. Creating the advances needed to rapidly decarbonize our energy supply - at a price the developing world can afford - will require the investment of countless billions of dollars for research and development. At the moment, we're not even close to victory, but many of the best, smartest and richest investors around have now joined the battle...
...Vermont governor bet that more college and high school students, inspired by his insurgent candidacy, would turn out to caucus for him. Instead, he ended up coming in third in 2004 behind Kerry and former North Carolina Senator John Edwards. And while Obama could certainly suffer as surprising a defeat as Dean, his supporters believe his operation is very different. Tom Harrington supported Howard Dean in 2004. This go-around he is Obama's co-chairman for Story County. "What's the difference? Organization!" said Harrington with a laugh at an Ames house party last month for a dozen undecided...
...tailor-made constitution allowed him to run again in 1995 and, given the defeat of inflation and terrorism, he easily scored the most lopsided victory in the country's modern history. He ran for a third term in 2000 and won, but the elections were largely seen as fraudulent and his new term ended almost as soon as it began when a corruption scandal broke in September of that year...