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...third trip to NCAAs, Rechul came back from a first-round loss to place seventh, good enough for an All-American finish. Rechul avenged three losses in the process...
...xenophobic National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen. Like the Gard department of which it is a part, Beaucaire belongs to a group of French constituencies where support for extreme-right candidates during general elections this month may determine the shape of the next national government. Polls indicate that first-round voting on June 9 will qualify National Front candidates for the June 16 run-offs in over 200 of France's 577 legislative races - way up from the 1997 level of 75. Such triangulaire battles will pit the National Front against rivals from the Socialist Party led by Fran...
...Beren Tennis Center this past weekend, watching the Harvard men’s tennis team roll over its first-round opponent in the NCAA tournament, when something struck me: this is the team’s best showing in my three years here. So I went home, clicked on the Internet archives of this paper and found something even more bedeviling—there have been a lot of times in this past school year when we’ve written that a Harvard sports team had its best season in “x” number of years...
...other first-round match-ups, No. 6 Baylor (25-1) will face Hartford (14-3), the America East champion. Harvard has not faced either team this year...
...voters may have voted for minor party candidates—or even for Le Pen—to protest what they see as a sclerotic political elite. Both Chirac and Jospin have been powerful in French politics for years and their campaigns received lackluster attention leading up to the first-round voting...