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HANOVER, N.H.—What a difference a week—and a change of place—can make.One week after blowing out Dartmouth in its Ivy League opener, the Harvard men’s basketball team had the favor returned at Leede Arena as it lost, 73-56, to the Big Green on Friday night.The Crimson (6-12, 1-1 Ivy) remained winless in road games this season, but its ninth loss in those contests may be the most shocking of all after Harvard had run over Dartmouth...
...pundits are probably wrong again. Clinton won New Hampshire because she was able to turn out the traditional Democratic base in her favor. She won self-identified Democrats, low-income voters, older voters, Catholic voters, urban and suburban voters, voters from union families, and voters who felt financially stressed...
...Spain, however, considers the ruling an unequivocal victory. "We're very pleased the court ruled in our favor," says James Goold, the attorney representing the Spanish government. "It shows that the court recognizes the need to move quickly to establish the identity of the ship." Perhaps more important, in his view, it also bodes well for the trial to come. "With this decision, we see that the court respects the cultural patrimony of a country like Spain...
...five days later, those numbers flipped, and Clinton carried women, 47% to 34%. More striking still was the turnaround among unmarried women - somewhat snottily referred to as the "spinster" vote - whom Obama had won by 13 percentage points in Iowa. That demographic swung 30 points in Clinton's favor in New Hampshire...
...Then why are demonstrators, rather than approving crowds, going into the streets? "With all due respect," Rami Khouri, one of the Arab world's most thoughtful commentators, wrote on the eve of the President's arrival in Israel, "Bush might do the region and the entire world a favor by staying home." Why is Bush perhaps the most unpopular American President in history among the people of this region...