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...Raiders’ three recent wins came against Cornell, a 2-1 overtime victory. It was only the second time Cornell has lost to an ECAC foe all year and is a sure sign that Colgate has the capability to defeat any team on a given night...
...hopes for an at-large NCAA bid. With No. 6 Boston College’s 5-2 victory over Northeastern in the late game of the Beanpot semifinals, last night’s contest marked the final chance Harvard would have at knocking-off a ranked non-conference foe. The Crimson finished the season 0-5-1 in such games...
Playing against familiar conference foe Colgate in the tournament consolation game the following day, Harvard took out its frustrations on the hapless Red Raiders (7-10-1, 2-4-0 ECAC), scoring eight goals and providing a comfortable cushion for freshman goaltender John Daigneau...
Some might have said that Mass. State Rep. Byron Rushing (D-Boston) was crazy to run for House Speaker against incumbent Thomas M. Finneran (D-Mattapan). His foe was, after all, the same political boss who has taken a thoroughly dictatorial approach to his rule of the Massachusetts House over the last six years—the same speaker who has made sure those who so much as vote against legislation he supports are banished to obscure committees and cramped offices...
...cheeky sense of humor. (At the Institutional Investor magazine awards dinner for market analysts in November, he opened his speech by saying, "It is wonderful to be here this evening, because I really want to put faces to all those e-mails.") His competitive streak makes him a formidable foe. "Debating with Eliot Spitzer is like wrestling with a grizzly bear," says William Taylor, an old friend and founding editor of Fast Company. "You don't hope to win, just to get out alive...