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...Cavaliers and all five singles losses came in straight sets. “The singles really told the story,” Fish said. “They jumped out to leads everywhere except for No. 1 and 2. We felt like we were the fox in a fox hunt.”KENTUCKY 4, HARVARD 3The first match of the weekend began perfectly. The Crimson won the doubles point by sweeping all three matches for the first time this season and took the lead and the momentum into the singles portion.At No. 1 doubles, Kumar and Ermakov conquered Bruno...
...bold as it was politically unpopular. With his approval ratings ebbing and a bipartisan group of wise elders urging him to withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq, Bush went in the other direction. Overcoming the opposition of the Joint Chiefs, Bush sent five additional combat brigades to secure the capital, hunt down al-Qaeda in Iraq in the countryside and, at least in theory, stop the violence long enough for the country's Sunnis and Shi'ites to find common ground on power-sharing...
...Delegate Hunt An unprecedented number of Americans will vote in primaries and caucuses on Feb. 5, a result of states elbowing ahead on the electoral calendar. While both parties have varying rules for allocating delegates, the sheer number of contests forces candidates to target just a handful of key states...
...joined a New Zealand expedition to the Himalayas. Helped by ever-improving equipment and Nepalese Sherpa guides, mountaineers were advancing further and further up the world's tallest peak. In 1953 a team led by British Colonel John Hunt planned another assault on the mountain the Nepalese call Sagarmatha, "head of the sky." Hillary signed on. The 15-man expedition also included Hillary's friend George Lowe, the renowned Sherpa climber Tenzing Norgay, eight other British climbers, a cameraman, a doctor and James (now Jan) Morris, a reporter from the London Times...
Before the duck hunt, Saltsman planned the aborted presidential effort of former majority leader Bill Frist. Before that, he ran the Tennessee Republican Party, overseeing the successful 2000 effort to deprive Al Gore of any home-state electoral votes. These days he deals with a whole new set of challenges. Hours before the Iowa caucuses, he helped talk down Huckabee, who wanted to bring his three dogs to New Hampshire, despite the airline's objections. "If it ever comes down to choosing between me and the dogs," Saltsman jokes, "I am done...