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...trip to face one of the top collegiate programs in the nation’s capital on Saturday, the Harvard men’s basketball team fell 78-63 to George Washington after a tough first half, despite a spirited comeback attempt late in the second half. The Crimson was without freshman forward Keith Wright, who was sick. A starter in all seven games this year, Wright is second on the team with 10.3 points per game. He will be out indefinitely, a major blow for Harvard, who kept it close nonetheless against its talented hosts before falling away near...
...were counted the first night are lost. Absentee ballots that were never counted turn up. Some people get their votes invalidated by accident. The 133 missing ballots, from example, were in an envelope from the not-exactly-shenanigans-prone University Lutheran Church of Hope in Minneapolis that got counted late on election night, then transported to a warehouse, and seem to have gone missing in the recount. Everyone spent a day combing the place for the envelope as if they were on a CSI episode, but to no avail. "You'd love to find it," says Mark Ritchie, Minnesota...
...Obama quickly decided to give a speech on American race relations, Axelrod said, and worked late nights over a busy weekend writing the text himself...
...bench as we did tonight.” One player certain to see a lot of the court tomorrow is junior guard Jeremy Lin. The best player on the team, and perhaps in the Ivy League, Lin went a career-high 47 minutes against the Huskies before fouling out late in the second overtime. The Colonials sport their own weapons both inside and out. Led by guards Noel Wilmore and Tony Taylor, and forwards Damien Hollis and Diggs, George Washington will be tough, and it will take strong efforts from both the Crimson frontcourt and backcourt to slow them down...
...himself as a "safe change" candidate. McCain, meanwhile, announced a suspension of his campaign and a plan to suspend the debate (which was later aborted), and showed an underwhelming effort in his return to Washington to support the federal bailout package - which led him to cancel an appearance on Late Show with David Letterman. Davis, who approached the event with humor, admitted, "The most damaging thing was pissing off Letterman...