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...climax of this cliffhanger was supposed to be former Secretary of State James Baker leading the cavalry to the rescue, the reports of his group's conclusions are not exactly reassuring. There is a sense of profound foreboding in Washington that events in Iraq have spiraled downward beyond anyone's control, and that all the Bush Administration can now do is contain the resulting damage...
...early foul trouble helped the visitors to an 82-74 victory, marking the Crimson’s third straight defeat in the young season. Harvard appears to have found a pattern early in the season: start out strong, taking a commanding lead, and slowly but surely enter a downward slope in the latter minutes of the game. Wednesday’s game followed this outline perfectly. The Crimson jumped out to an early 10-4 lead off layups from sophomore guard Emily Tay. After baskets by the opposition and a bucket from sophomore Emma Moretzsohn, Harvard commanded a seven point...
...leading by as much as 11 points in the first half, the Crimson allowed the Bobcats to slowly chip away at the lead until it clung to a meager 38-36 advantage going into halftime. The second half, as in previous games this season, saw Harvard continue on its downward slope. More turnovers and poor shooting allowed the opposition too many easy points, and the excessive foul trouble provided too many trips to the charity stripe—Quinnipiac went 22-of-29 at the line compared to 6-of-9 for the Crimson. Sophomore guard Emily Tay led Harvard...
...band's appeal, though, is an unexpected lack of bitterness. Bad things happen--oh, well, the band says on Float On, its first radio hit in a decade-long career. Isaac Brock's squawked-out vocals and an appearance by the Dirty Dozen Brass Band turn the downward spiral into something arch, melodic and ever...
...campaign rally in August, referred to a South Asian supporter of Webb's as "macaca," a term considered by many to be a racial slur. That helped lead to accusations that Allen had used racial slurs to describe blacks in the 1970's and put his campaign in a downward spiral that eventually put the race into a dead heat. It's been a bizarre campaign: Allen learned in the midst of it that his mother was Jewish, while Webb has become dogged by accusations that's he's a sexist, brought on by a 1979 article in which...