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...season, however, the Bulldogs (7-22, 7-7 Ivy) took that control away in a painful 64-58 defeat Saturday night.“We had everything to win,” Crimson coach Kathy Delaney-Smith said. “They had nothing to lose and everything to gain. Harvard’s rarely in that role and Yale’s always in that role. We had it in our control and we played tight.”Although ownership of the paint belonged to Harvard—the Crimson scored 24 points and grabbed 46 rebounds...
...practical level, many of the students who are supposed to gain from the hours live in Mather and Leverett and are unable to use the QRAC at 8 a.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Very few women have used the gym so far because of the inconvenience, not due to a lack of desire...
...primary in higher than normal numbers, so that they can vote for Clinton, and thus keep the Democratic battle going. There is some evidence that this trend might be developing," said InsiderAdvantage's Matt Towery. "Finally, Clinton has a demographic that she could possibly go after to gain votes. She currently trails among women in Mississippi, but leads among men. If she could turn the uniqueness of becoming the first woman President into a major talking point, she might make additional progress with Mississippi women...
...Nantes, Rouen and Dijon. The left also posted dominant leads in Paris, Lille and Strasbourg, and was in tight races going into run-offs even in such traditional conservative bastions as Marseille and Toulouse. In many close runoff races next weekend, Socialist candidates appear more likely to gain the support of the centrist Modem party, which had once been a coalition partner of Sarkozy's UMP - although the centrists may demand a prohibitive price for throwing their support to the Socialists...
...Although the Socialists stood to gain five seats in Congress over the previous legislature, they failed to win the 176 seats needed to form an absolute majority. As they did in 2004, they will have to form coalitions with the United Left party and smaller nationalist parties from Cataluña and the Basque Country. But in a sign of the sharpening divide in the country, those smaller third parties like United Left and the Catalan Republican Left lost significant numbers of seats. The 2008 elections, it turned out, were the most bi-partisan in Spanish history, with the Socialists...