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Grassley gives Bush 90 days to generate support, and moderate G.O.P. Representative Chris Shays of Connecticut says, "I would be surprised to see a bill passed by the House, Senate, and signed by the President in the next two years." Still, the White House is far from conceding defeat on its top legislative priority. "This is the beginning of the process, not the end," says a senior White House official. Bush will continue to travel a couple of days each week to the districts of G.O.P. lawmakers and "persuadable" Democrats. But tactics are getting rougher. Shadegg believes that liberal groups...
Three of those four losses have come this season in the form of a two-point loss at Columbia, a one-point defeat at Yale, and a four-point setback at home against Cornell last Saturday night...
With the feeling of that bitter defeat still fresh in the minds of the Harvard players, the squad will look to exact a bit of revenge tonight...
...That defeat, though sufficiently painful, was far from the lowlight of the season, which would instead come the following Friday night. Hosting Cornell, Princeton again led well into the second half. But an inexplicable 20-0 run from the Big Red erased an eight-point deficit and resulted in Cornell’s first win at Jadwin Gym in 20 years...
...indoor contests, the No. 18 Harvard women’s tennis team traveled to Georgia Tech two days early to prepare for some rare outdoor play. The early arrival paid off, as the Crimson (6-2) won its fifth straight match—a 5-2 defeat of the No. 23 Yellow Jackets (5-1) on Sunday—without its injured co-captains. Unfortunately for Harvard, the streak ended a day later at the hands of No. 16 Clemson (4-4), in a tight 4-3 President’s Day decision...