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...must be finished by Labor Day. There is no margin for error!” Gehrke said with a laugh...
This match was one in which the doubles point proved decisive, with Harvard’s loss accounting for the margin of victory. Harvard’s No. 1 and No. 3 teams lost, with Ermakov and junior Ashwin Kumar falling, 8-5, at the top spot and freshman Michael Hayes and junior Dan Nguyen losing, 8-6. Denenberg and Valkin’s 8-7 win could not help the Crimson win the best-of-three doubles point...
...sophomore attack Kaitlin Martin took a pass from freshman attack Sarah Flood and scored the team’s first goal of the game. The score was 6-1 at that point, but Denver responded just 40 seconds later with a score from Leggio to rebuild its six-goal margin...
...have a hard core of supporters who will back them no matter what. But in Israel these days, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is testing the limits of the possible: in a recent poll by a local television station, he had a favorable rating of 3%. Given the poll's margin of error, it was possible Olmert had no support beyond his extended family. The Prime Minister responded to this dismaying turn of events--caused by Israel's less than triumphant war against Hizballah last summer, plus a gaudy array of scandals among his Cabinet ministers, plus the fact that...
...scandal stemming from the Justice Department's dismissal last year of eight U.S. attorneys. Forty-eight percent of respondents say the federal prosecutors were fired because they "refused to be pressured by politics," compared to just 22% who believe they were dismissed "for proper reasons." By a 55%-33% margin, Americans believe Bush is refusing to allow top aide Karl Rove and other White House aides to testify under oath "because he's trying to cover up the reasons for the firings," not because he "wants to preserve the Constitution's separation of powers." A slight plurality, 39%-36%, believe...