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...those not paying close attention, and others simply in denial, it is worth taking a moment to review just how bleak life has become for members of the Grand Old Party. Last fall Republicans were swept from power in both houses of Congress. This summer the incumbent Republican President is setting standards for unpopularity not seen since the Nixon Watergate era. In recent weeks the campaign of the war-hero Senator who was once the party's presumptive nominee has all but collapsed in debt and blame. The latest financial reports show that the G.O.P.'s always reliable money advantage...
...being the final watercolor mourning scenes in Order of the Phoenix, with the mirror, the ghosts and, of course, Luna Lovegood. ("She's great, isn't she?" Ron says of Luna in Deathly Hallows. "Always good value.") But then again, this isn't a lyrical interlude, this is the grand finale. It calls for big battles and high body counts, force majeure and not legerdemain, and Rowling leaves no stops unpulled. It gives nothing away to say that a final showdown occurs, and if the final plot twist is eminently satisfying but not all that surprising, it's only because...
...Harvard varsity eight, competing in the Ladies’ Challenge Plate—an eight event slate second only to the Grand Challenge Cup—stormed through its heats and semifinal against Brown to win a place in the final on July...
...Canadian eight, who eventually won the Grand Challenge Cup, raced against Harvard as part of the team’s warm-up the day before the regatta started, beating the Harvard boat by a slender margin, Kitovitz said...
...scrimmaged with the Canadian national team a few days before racing and they...only won by a couple of seconds. And they then won the Grand Challenge at Henley and the World Cup last weekend,” he said, hinting at even greater untested prowess on the part of the Harvard eight...