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...Tight throughout a second half that saw three ties and six lead changes, the Quakers (5-10, 1-0 Ivy) took the lead in the final two minutes and held on to it to give the Crimson (9-7, 1-2 Ivy) its second-straight home Ivy loss. Harvard got 14 points and six boards from junior forward Doug Miller and 13 from junior guard Jeremy Lin, but the team was killed by abysmal free throw shooting, hitting just 7-of-16 attempts, including missing the front ends of four one-and-one chances. This came on the heels...
...Harvard-Princeton rivalry has seen its fair share of end-game drama over the past three years at Lavietes Pavilion. In 2006, the Tigers came back from a 59-53 deficit over the final 1:17 of play to win on a last second jumper, 60-59. Last year, the Crimson used a 20-8 run in the last seven minutes to force overtime and win. Sufficed to say, the Harvard faithful have seen some of the team’s greatest highs and lowest lows in its battles against the Tigers. After a devastating 77-71 loss Saturday night...
Morris, Errol • photo editors are invited by to present key images from the George W. Bush era, with the stunning final three (by Reuters' Jim Bourg)-do scroll down!-hinting at the possibility that he at last has some glimmer of the miserable hash he made of, well, everything...
...meetings between House and Senate leaders, when a compromise bill will be worked out for another vote in both bodies. But the stakes remain high for the Obama White House and Obama's promise of a new direction in Washington. With just days to go before a likely final vote on the package, it remains unclear if the President or congressional leaders have the willingness or political motivation to make the compromises that would change what is now a Democratic stimulus effort into a legitimately bipartisan one. (See who's who in Obama's White House...
Republicans are hopeful that they can get some of these projects expunged before final passage. "We fully expect that Obama will work with us on some of this stuff; it's in his interest to," said a GOP Senate leadership aide. "He gets to seem presidential and bipartisan at relatively little cost." The more items that get taken out, the better chance Obama has to gain Republican support for the bill. In this scenario, Republicans would get to claim victory as well, telling their constituents that they fought the good fight in the name of fiscal conservatism. "We were going...