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...victory in the best-of-nine contest Saturday at the Barnaby courts. But the Crimson saved its best for last, as junior Colin West clinched a Harvard comeback by winning the deciding match, a 9-0, 9-0, 9-5 blowout of Rochester’s top-seeded player Jim Bristow—a first team All-America selection last year...
...Crimson was tied with the Yellowjackets 4-4, and the No. 1 seed was set to play. For Harvard, that player was Colin West, who has been flawless so far this season, not losing a match to date. His faceoff against Rochester No. 1 seed Jim Bristow would be no different. It seemed like Bristow, who was a First Team All-American, was not going to be an easy opponent. But West swiftly defeated him 9-0, 9-0, 9-5 to secure a Crimson victory. Things were looking good for the Crimson in the first round of games...
...Brattle Street. Flores wants to rent it out every Friday and Saturday from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. and Schwartz wants to rent it out two weekends every month. Both want to use the building to let student groups and others have parties or other social events. Though Jim Smith, the Center’s executive director, said that alcohol is not allowed at the center, the plan seems otherwise plausible. “It’s a reasonable thing to propose that [a candidate] would encourage renting space from us,” he said. UC President Matthew...
...governor, he showed some serious political shortcomings. Officials who worked with him say Blagojevich could appear disengaged and never truly expert in any of the policy discussions in which he participated. Jim Duffett, executive director of Illinois' Campaign for Better Health Care, contends that Blagojevich's attempts at health-care reform failed largely because of his prickly, grandstanding personality, which alienated lawmakers and would-be allies. If anything got passed, says Duffett, legislators "knew the governor would get credit for it." There was also the misguided audacity of his political tactics. He tried to fund his health-care plan...
...campaigned against Senator Chris Dodd to become Senate Minority Leader, winning by just won vote. He also served as Majority Leader after Vermont's Jim Jeffords left the Republican Party in 2001 to become an independent and caucus with the Democrats, giving Daschle a one vote majority...