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...only a projection!” In their enclave in the Trustman Lecture Hall at the IOP, the outnumbered Republicans prepare for a night of watching election results in hostile territory. They sit down with their laptops, McCain-Palin buttons, and cold pizza, hoping for a major upset. The sounds of cheering Obama fans at the Election Night Party in the adjacent JFK Jr. Forum are only somewhat muted. But the prospects of an upset grow dimmer as the projection screen in front of the room reports one blue state after another. For Colin J. Motley...
...great specialists, we had great units in general, and we were really good at it and it was a strength. That’s why, other than one game, we didn’t have a lot of close games that year.”Another major drawback and source of disappointment for any Crimson fan over the last few years has been a serious lack of positive big plays for Harvard on special teams. In the last two years, the Crimson has allowed three punt returns for touchdowns without returning one of its own—in fact, Harvard...
...engines. Hinting at the seriousness of the problem, the Navy has just dispatched a team of 40 workers - including engineers, pipe fitters and welders - to Bahrain to make the San Antonio shipshape. "Forty technicians - that's ludicrous," says Norman Polmar, an independent naval expert. "It means the problems are major, because the ship has mechanics, metal smiths and other people on board as part of the crew, and they're supposed to take care of minor problems." And you thought McHale's Navy was canceled back...
...California's drill, too, originally was scheduled as an exercise for only emergency officials. That exercise, called Golden Guardian, will involve about 5,000 officials, from the local police to the U.S. military, all pretending they are responding to a major quake along the San Andreas Fault...
...Behind all this flash and exuberance is a stark reality. The southern section of the San Andreas Fault hasn't moved in about 300 years. We know it moves about every 150 years. So California is overdue for a major quake. In April, a new report concluded there is a 99.7% chance that a magnitude 6.7 or stronger quake will shake California within the next 30 years...