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Even with a few hours' perspective on the game, Harvard's 2-1 loss remains puzzling. A glance at the box score, for one, provides little insight into the Crimson's stunning defeat...
...over weaker Atlantic-10 opponents lifting the team to a 7-0-1 conference record and a lopsided 3-0 loss to sixth-ranked Texas A&M providing a more accurate measure of the team's progress. The regular season ended on a down note with a 3-2 defeat at the hands of Dayton in the Atlantic-10 tournament final...
Foes of Prop. 209 such as the NAACP and the ACLU hope to defeat most if not all of its provisions in court, as opponents of Prop. 187 were able to do, but their chances of success are slim. Furthermore, Prop. 209 is carefully worded to avoid conflicting with federal affirmative action policies in order to circumvent some of the problems that have dogged Prop...
...then there was the man at the center, who has been tormented by political money since his first defeat in the 1980 Governor's race in Arkansas. Even when he was safely ahead, he would panic at the very end of his gubernatorial races, to the point of taking out personal loans from the likes of the Perry County Bank and ordering his chief fixer, Bruce Lindsey, to hand out tens of thousands of dollars in cash payments to encourage voter turnout in the Arkansas Delta. The last-minute push continues to this day: Washington lobbyists complain that Democratic fund...
When a young team loses the second game of the season, it is easy to resort to cliches and explain away the defeat as a "learning experience," and to see fisticuffs as a mark of frustration...