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...Crimson (9-4) squared off with the New Jersey Institute of Technology (5-10) for the first time ever and held off the Highlanders to win its second-consecutive road game...
...Crimson entered the game best in the Ivy League in overall scoring, but it certainly had its best defensive effort of the season against the Highlanders. NJIT’s 53 points was the lowest total allowed all season, and Harvard held the Highlanders to 36% from the field overall and added nine blocked shots along with eight steals...
...stake is far more than a simple Senate seat, even one held by Ted Kennedy. Brown has boasted that if he wins, he'll be the linchpin in a successful GOP filibuster of health care reform, and Coakley has stressed on the campaign that she would be the 60th vote to deliver one of Kennedy's top priorities. If Brown were to win, Democrats would have to drop everything and fly to Maine to find out what Republican moderates Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe might want in exchange for their votes. Or, according to the Boston Herald, Massachusetts Democrats could...
...Pelosi has held a series of conference calls in recent days with members of her caucus, both to gauge their temperature and to prepare them for the fact that they may end up having to swallow many of the Senate provisions. Over on the Senate side of the Capitol, Harry Reid faces an even more delicate challenge in holding together the 60 votes he got to pass the bill on Christmas Eve. That was exactly the number he needed to overcome a Republican filibuster...
...while it may be ahead in the domestic p.r. game on Gaza thus far, the regime of the aging President Hosni Mubarak, who has held power for nearly three decades, is struggling to maintain legitimacy in the face of other domestic threats. Corruption, police brutality, a widening income gap and a recent spike in Muslim-Christian violence have added fuel to Egypt's disorganized but politically diverse opposition. And it may not be long before Gaza comes back to haunt...