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...year the President's political strategist recruited Los Angeles' popular outgoing mayor, Richard Riordan, to run for Governor against the vulnerable Demo-cratic incumbent, Gray Davis--and Rove seemed to be taking the first step toward remaking the moribund California G.O.P. in Bush's image. But Riordan's spectacular defeat in last week's Republican primary suggests that what passes for genius in Washington can look too clever by half anywhere else...
Competitions are about winning and losing. In defeat, the Canadian skaters made it clear that they did not deserve the gold medal. I give their whining performance a 5.2. COURTNEY R. JOHNSON Washington...
...have to go back to the Crimson’s last trip to the NCAA tournament in 1994 to find a more meaningful game—and it couldn’t have come at a better place than Lake Placid, site of the United States’ historic defeat of the Soviet Union at the 1980 Olympics...
Monti closed out the first half with the ghastly stat line of zero assists and points to five turnovers. Delaney-Smith said that UNC’s ability to throw Monti out of her game was more of a factor in the defeat than any of the Tar Heels’ offensive talent...
...facet of Harvard’s defeat at Clarkson was the Crimson’s weak play on the penalty kill, a problem Mazzoleni hoped to address with more aggressive pressure on the man with the puck to prevent further penetration, or a pass from the blue line further into the zone...