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...Crimson was outshot 35-23, including a 15-11 margin in the crucial third period...
...stinging come-from-behind defeat was typical of the Crimson's 1999 campaign. Last year, Harvard was either ahead or tied in the fourth quarter of all of the games it lost. In addition, its five losses last year came by a combined margin of only 18 points. Such frustration leaves indelible marks and one wonders if memories of last year will effect tomorrow's performance in The Game...
...been a presidential election. Few dared to predict the outcome. Yale surged to a commanding first-half lead, and held the lead well into the fourth quarter. With but minutes to go in the game, Yale was confidently marching down the field, holding onto a seemingly insurmountable 16-point margin. To many observers, especially on the Yale side, it might have seemed the graceful thing for Harvard simply to concede victory to Yale. The game seemed all but lost...
...Here's the plan: The Gore camp will wait for Bush's final Saturday margin - it's now at 321, according to the AP - and then fight tooth and nail to keep those hand counts going until they find margin-plus-one votes for Al Gore...
...although this election's jaw-droppingly close margin seems to be a particularly compelling argument for excluding Ellis, Gottlieb argues it doesn't really make any difference. "Even if this had been a landslide, you don't have a candidate's relative reporting on an election." Interestingly, according to Tuesday's Washington Post, Ellis himself seemed to agree just last year, when he resigned from his position as a political reporter at the Boston Globe. "I am loyal to my cousin.... I put that loyalty ahead of my loyalty to anyone else outside my immediate family. That being the case...