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Last week’s power grab by the Republican lawmakers of the Lone Star State was wily indeed. In their rush to lasso the state’s Democratic representatives out of office, the political bandits twisted their state’s congressional districts along clumsy racial lines. By shunting minority voters into their own bizarrely-shaped districts—keeping these predominantly Democratic citizens out of potentially contentious races—the legislators aimed to sweep their Republican pals into the House...
...this marks a worrisome trend. Just as Harvard dominated the first eight elections, Yale has dominated the last eight. Yale candidates have run on a major party ticket in every race for the past three decades, starting with a lone vice-presidential candidate in 1972, R. Sargent Shriver, and grew into a juggernaut with Joseph I. Lieberman, Bush, and Dick Cheney...
...Crimson’s lone goal in the third quarter came from Offsay with 3:31 left after he was fed the ball by freshman Mike Garcia...
Desir, who has taken tae kwon do for 3 years and is a red stripe in rank—three levels below the black belt—will be the College’s lone representative in the Nov. 7 and 8 Collegiate Nationals competition held in Washington state...
Harvard’s defense has been its strength throughout the season, while its offense has not been as potent. Managing just the lone goal forced the Crimson to rely on its defense yet again, and Harvard came up just short of holding onto the victory...