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...error set the team back late in the game. Despite strong efforts from senior Mimi Hanley and junior Kathryn McKinley, who both scored key kills, the Tigers again pulled away for a 30-28 win.Weiss was satisfied with the team’s defense, which held Lindsay Ensign, Princeton’s top hitter, to only 11 kills. “We went point for point,” Weiss said.Princeton led the game in kills (53-49), blocks (12-7) and assists (49-48), edging out Harvard in each category by small margins...
...G.O.P. incumbents, four Senators hail from states that John Kerry won in 2004 - Maine, New Hampshire, Minnesota and Oregon. Adding to Republican woes, they trail Senate Democrats by more than $15 million in campaign funds. "There's no question that the money is a concern," said Senator John Ensign, a Nevada Republican who heads the National Republican Senatorial Committee. "Republican Senators need to realize that we're in a different political environment out there than before and that money is much harder to raise and that means they have to get off their lazy rear ends...
...former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey decides to return to the political stage in his home state, while the Republican nominee for the Virginia Senate seat will have an uphill battle running against Democrat Mark Warner, a very popular former governor. "Virginia is going to the hardest state to hold," Ensign admits. "The most expensive and the hardest. But it is still a Red State, so we're going to play there...
...Ensign said he's giving Stevens the time he's asked for to prove it. "If it's resolved as quickly as possible Senator Stevens will have no problem getting reelected," Ensign said in an interview. All this is not to say the Democrats have a good chance of picking up nine seats. The tail wind from the 2006 elections would have to gust into 2008. "For Democrats to get to 60 they'd have to go 8-0 in every plausible race and then find one more from one of the scandal-ridden states and defend Senator [Mary] Landrieu...
...Fear of the impact the latest scandal would have on the Republican base appears to have been foremost in the mind of Senator John Ensign, head of the NRSC, to urge Craig to quit for the sake of the party. "There is no question Senator Craig, being a Republican, brings a bad reputation," Ensign told a television station in his homestate Nevada. "We've had some problems lately...