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...There are problems. These are Democrats, after all. They remain muddled on Iraq. Their special-interest groups, especially the teachers' unions, were strengthened last week by the defeat of Arnold Schwarzenegger's California reform initiatives. The teachers spent a shameful $7 million to defeat a mild proposal to delay eligibility for tenure from two to five years of classroom experience. Worse, congressional districting reforms failed in both California and Ohio; two decades of questionable gerrymandering deals, especially between white Republicans and black Democrats in the South, has increased minority representation but decreased the number of House districts where Democrats...
...night on the power play. “Hopefully tonight caught the eyes of other people in the ECAC,” said freshman David Marshall, who scored twice. And if Friday’s performance didn’t, Saturday’s 7-5 defeat of Dartmouth certainly did. “To follow it, to beat Dartmouth—it’s something I don’t think a lot of people thought was possible,” Pecknold laughed. Despite finishing the 2004-2005 season first in Atlantic Hockey, Quinnipiac was picked to finish...
Losing streaks are hard to break.But when you are the number one ranked team in the country, it makes things a little easier.No. 1 St. Lawrence comes to Cambridge this weekend as the favorite looking to defeat the No. 5 Harvard women’s hockey team—something it has not done in its last 12 tries. For the Crimson (3-0-0, 2-0-0 ECAC), however, it is not just the Saints that makes this weekend a difficult conference test.Riding the wave of a two-game conference win-streak after beating its first two ECAC opponents...
...weeks ago, everything changed. Penn experienced its second defeat in its past 27 Ivy League games, losing 34-20 against Brown. Things just got worst for the Quakers last weekend, as Penn suffered its second loss in as many weeks to Princeton, giving up five turnovers in a 31-10 collapse to the Tigers. It was the first time Penn had lost back-to-back games in almost a decade...
...Sensing defeat, the Republican governor made the tactical decision to give his election night speech to supporters in a Beverly Hills hotel long before the final results were tallied. "In a couple of days victories or losses will be behind us," he said, and then got off the stage fast before the real bad news became official. Unlike in Hollywood, there was no chance to make up for the flop with DVD sales...