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...league play begins in earnest this weekend, with all eight teams in action, Around the Ivy League makes its triumphant return to the printed page, after slogging through a 1-3 start in the SportsBlog.Despite just making the turn into February, several teams have already found themselves eliminated from the two-month playoff that is the 14 Game Tournament. Dartmouth and Columbia, which have combined for a 1-7 start, are out of the race, while Brown and Cornell—each 2-2—have no margin for error.The three one-loss teams—Harvard, Yale...
...political analyst and demographer in Shreveport, notes that one possible factor in Landrieu's decision to seek the mayor's office may be to save the city for the Democratic Party and his own family's future political fortunes. Under Moon Landrieu, the city's white flight began in earnest, but now the city has the opposite problem, with blacks fleeing, which is causing headaches for Democrats like the Landrieus, who traditionally win big in black districts. Nagin, by comparison, is not considered a true Democrat and, his recent remarks notwithstanding, does not cater to the black vote machine...
When the Senate returns in earnest to Capitol Hill this week after a nearly month long break, Senate minority leader Harry Reid has high hopes to build on last year's Democratic successes-which included blocking President Bush's Social Security reform plan, his proposed extension of capital gains and dividend tax cuts and his long sought-after approval of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. And with the Abramoff scandal gaining steam, Reid had a seemingly perfect backdrop for last week's rollout of the Democrat's election year theme-the "Republican culture of corruption...
TWENTY THOUSAND STREETS UNDER THE SKY BBC AMERICA, FEB. 11 AND 12, 8 P.M. E.T. This wistful mini-series, based on a 1935 Patrick Hamilton novel, is less love triangle than unrequited love triangle. Plain, earnest pub worker Ella (Sally Hawkins) pines for naive, literary barman Bob (Bryan Dick), who in turn pines for Jenny (Zoë Tapper), a streetwalker who pines for her former self, her lost opportunities and her ability to love. Streets is a keen-eyed, elegantly acted noir drama of heartbreak in alleys and darkened movie houses...
After six admirable but unadorable records, this trio of very earnest, very intense women from the Northwest decided to let loose their inner Led Zeppelin. The guitar playing is heavy, dexterous and hook laden, but the polish of the melodies never obscures their calling card--the raw, intermingled wails of Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein...