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...Crimson showed a good deal of mettle in a back-and-forth, tightly-contested second half that featured seven ties and eight lead changes. Harvard took a decisive 66-65 advantage with 3:21 remaining on sophomore point guard Drew Housman’s drive down the right side of the lane and high bank off the glass...
...close it out in the final minutes thanks to a crucial shift in momentum earlier in the second half. Maine, trailing by three at halftime, deleted the deficit by running off a 15-5 run to start the period, a sequence capped by a spectacular put-back dunk by guard Chris Bruff over Cusworth which gave the Black Bears their largest lead...
...single act of near-violence: A fanatic lunged at a drag queen belting out a gay-pride song on stage at Friday's event in the sports arena of the Hebrew University, but even in spangled high heels, the drag queen nimbly evaded the attacker, and a security guard yanked the assailant offstage by the seat of his trousers...
...That exchange provided hints of the feuds to come. Though both maintained the appearance of collegiality, Rice and Rumsfeld loathed each other. Throughout Woodward's book they are depicted squabbling over everything from how to handle detainees at Guantanamo Bay to whether the U.S. should guard oil pipelines in Iraq. As the war dragged on, their roles were reversed: By the end of the book it is Rumsfeld who is left to doodle in his notebook while Rice briefs reporters during a joint appearance in Baghdad. "Don's Don," Rice says, when Frank Miller, a top aide, calls Rumsfeld...
...will have a more difficult task running a campaign as a change agent, since he's been in the House leadership for several years; in fact, he lost the race for Majority Leader to Boehner earlier this year primarily because he was viewed as a member of the old guard. Georgia Rep. Jack Kingston, another member of the current G.O.P. leadership, is running for conference chairman and will face Tennessee's Marsha Blackburn and Florida's Adam Putnam...