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Rebel conservative Republicans and Senate Democrats handed George W. Bush a major defeat Friday, but GOP officials insist it will end up backfiring in next year's mid-term elections. Despite intense pressure from the White House and Senate Republican leadership to extend for 4 to 10 years parts of the USA Patriot Act that are due to expire at the end of the month and make other parts permanent, civil-liberty-minded opponents of the bill brought it down Friday by sustaining a filibuster. Revelations in Friday's New York Times that the White House had secretly authorized...
...good one. The Big Green’s season-opening skid began with a 6-2 loss at Harvard’s Bright Hockey Center and continued with a 3-0 shutout at Princeton, a 7-5 barnburner at Quinnipiac and a 3-2 home-opening defeat at the hands of Colgate. Successive wins over Cornell, Brown and Yale brought Dartmouth within a game of .500, but three losses in the last four contests have set the team back once again. “They’re reeling a little bit right now,” Donato said...
...momentum built up at the beginning of the six-pack, the Crimson faced a superior UNH squad at Bright on Saturday. The now-No. 2 Wildcats matched Harvard in speed and athleticism and surpassed it in control and execution en route to a 3-0 victory. With the defeat went the hopes of that winning streak.Stone, for her part, acknowledged the UNH’s strength and was not discouraged.“We lost to a better team,” Stone said. “If we go 5-1 we’re still in very good...
...Jones' fall had been coming for a while. His supporters pointed to his feat of guiding the Wallabies to the final of the last World Cup, but the side was impressive just once in that campaign. The Wallabies' loss to Wales on Nov. 26 was their eighth defeat in nine Tests. Each time, they retreated to camp amid a buzz about grueling sessions and tactical fine-tuning, only to play just as badly the next time. Many observers have railed about favoritism shown to the ageing captain. But the team's problems go beyond George Gregan. Success in rugby...
...Northeastern a week ago. On the next night, as in last Sunday’s loss at Richmond, the defense improves—Harvard held the Spiders to 34 percent shooting from the field—but the offense falters, making only 17 field goals in a 63-47 defeat. Maintaining a high level of play, on both sides of the ball, remains the squad’s top priority. “I thought we played pretty good defense and we rebounded the ball very well in the game [against Richmond},” co-captain Maureen McCaffery said...