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After a heated debate at last night’s meeting, the Cambridge City Council voted down by a narrow margin a resolution that would have delayed building more affordable housing in the city...
...Duboe says. “Fortunately, things worked out.”As a sophomore in college, Duboe now helps lead a new community—Harvard’s rising Division I men’s lacrosse program. Harvard (4-1) beats its opponents by an average margin of six goals and easily knocked off then-No. 20 Fairfield (3-2) by a score of 12-3 on Saturday.In that game, Duboe earned his third consecutive hat-trick and reason to reinstate the theme song “Wild Thing.” In the first five games...
Indeed, Friday night’s goal total and margin of victory were the biggest since Harvard defeated Yale 12-1 on Dec. 11, 1993 and matched the largest winning margin of the tournament’s history. But perhaps the statistic that best underscores the team’s transformation was that the Crimson scored one more goal on Friday night than it did for the entire month of December...
...left-of-center parties, led by the previously floundering Socialists. Leftist wrenched 40 cities from conservative incumbents, including 30 with 20,000 or more inhabitants; rightists nabbed just six from outgoing leftist administrations. In Paris, incumbent Socialist mayor Betrand Delanoë added eight points to his razor-thin margin of victory in 2001 - not only winning an outright majority of the city council, but also positioning himself as a favorite in an expected showdown with former presidential candidate Ségolène Royal for the party's leadership later this year. Socialist-led tickets captured France's third-largest...
...said. The sophomore led the team with five aces and 42 assists, and the Crimson opened the fourth game hoping to erase its early deficit.The home team again started promisingly, building a four point lead, 12-8, but Mount Olive’s tenacity wore Harvard down, as the margin dwindled to a tie at 18.“In the fourth game we let up a little bit,” Weintraub said. “We didn’t realize what was happening fast enough.”Indeed, in the blink of an eye the Trojans...