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...along with an endorsement from Caroline B. Kennedy ’80—who made a surprise appearance at last night’s event—has narrowed Hillary Rodham Clinton’s once-dominant lead in the national polls. According to aggregate figures, the gap between Obama and Clinton in Massachusetts has narrowed from roughly 25 points on Jan. 1 to approximately 10 points. In his hour-long speech, Obama emphasized his main campaign themes of change and hope, but also pointed an accusatory finger at some fellow Democrats. “There?...
...middle of the first frame when it trailed Rutgers-Neward by four, 12-16. But the Crimson recovered on a 14-6 run to take the game, 30-26. In the second game, Harvard took an early lead, and although the Scarlet Raiders managed to close the gap near the end of the frame, tying it up at 26, the Crimson kept the edge. Harvard went on a 4-0 run to record another 30-26 win.Rutgers-Neward again kept it close in the third frame, but the Crimson came out on top, posting a .273 attack percentage...
...Harvard clawed back in it thanks to Tay, who found senior forward Adrian Budischak open for a jumper and then kept it going with a silky jump shot from the left baseline to cut the lead to 53-48. Penn widened the gap to seven on a Sarah Bucar jumper with 2:54 remaining, before a Niki Finelli three-pointer and a jumper from Hallion cut it to 60-58 with 1:20 left. After a quick basket for the Quakers, Hallion found a cutting Finelli at the top of the key, and Finelli buried her second consecutive triple...
...Lincoln's death was fused with Jesus' in the popular imagination?people needed Lincoln to be more than human in order to give meaning to the slaughter over which he presided. We still seem to need that, even while we know it's not true. Maybe it's that gap, between Lincoln's mortal and immortal natures, that we're trying to fill with all these words...
McGovern added that despite the improvements in overall scores, not enough progress has been made on closing the achievement gap between white and minority students...