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...come to the polls one last time. The Chambliss line about being the firewall against an Obama agenda is resonating with voters. According to a recent Rasmussen poll, 52% of Georgia voters say they would be less likely to vote for Martin if it meant the Democrats would gain a 60-seat majority in the Senate. Meanwhile, 9% of those planning to vote for Martin said the thought of a filibuster-proof Senate makes them less likely to vote...
...still playing catch-up. Not that Chávez has always played fair: his government, for example, ruled that scores of opposition candidates were ineligible to run in last week's contests because of murky corruption charges. (And he himself was once willing to try extraconstitutional means to gain power: in 1992, as a paratrooper lieutenant colonel, he tried to stage a military coup.) To ensure the opposition's weakness, Chávez has loudly and rather petulantly declared that he'll use his ubiquitous levers of power to make the work of the new opposition governors and mayors especially...
...what does Yale expect to gain by replacing Siedlecki? The question looms larger when you consider that Siedlecki took over a program in terrible shape in 1997. That season, his first year in New Haven, the Bulldogs went 1-9, undermanned and unprepared after the last unsuccessful years of Carm Cozza, the closest thing Yale has to Bear Bryant. Two years later, Siedlecki led the Bulldogs to a win over Harvard that locked up an Ivy title and a 9-1 season. In other words, Siedlecki restored the luster to a program that was sorely lacking, taking it about...
...Still, despite the BJP's rush to seek political advantage from the government's failings in Mumbai, it remains unclear how much traction the opposition party and its allies can gain. During their last term in power, some of the worst religious riots India has ever experienced occurred in the state of Gujarat in 2002, leaving thousands dead. A year before that, an audacious terrorist attack had seen MPs come under fire inside India's Parliament building. Some of the BJP's right-wing allies, such as the Shiv Sena, an influential Hindu-nationalist party in Mumbai, have a reputation...
...McCollem scored his third goal of the season, slamming the puck into the BC net on a power play with an assist from Killorn. With the score tied at 1-1, Harvard seemed to be holding its own against the defending national champions, with both teams skating furiously to gain an advantage.But the momentum shifted as Eagles captain Brock Bradford took a pass from teammate Brian Gibbons and scored the tie-breaker with a clear shot with just over 26 seconds left in the second period. “Going into the locker room with a 1-1 tie against...