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...Crimson, which was out-rebounded by a distressing 42-29 margin, won the game at the free-throw line. Harvard was 28-of-37 from the stripe versus Maine’s 10-15 performance, a continuation of a trend from last year, when Harvard shot over 150 more free throws than its opponents and capitalized at an Ivy second-best .745 percentage...
...other statewide races, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56—a member of the Senate since 1962—easily defeated Republican Kenneth Chase by a three to one margin...
...maximum of three liquor licenses—a rule that prevents many supermarket chains from selling beer, wine, and spirits. With 96 percent of precincts reporting early this morning, “no” votes outnumbered “yes” ballots by a 12 percentage point margin. But in Cambridge, where voters’ liberal leanings apparently apply to libations as well, 58 percent supported the measure. The rejection of the initiative represents a significant reversal of voter opinion in recent months—a June poll by Suffolk University’s Political Research Center found...
...Democrats urban strongholds: She launched her campaign at her family's old feed mill in the town of Houston, population 1,992, and she campaigned intensively in such conservative strongholds as Springfield and St. Charles County. And the gamble appears to have paid off, holding down Talent's margin of victory to a slim 53% in conservative Greene County, where he needed to do much better to offset McCaskill's advantage in St. Louis, where Democrats typically win 80% of the vote...
...attempts to woo blacks across the country. This was the year when President Bush addressed the NAACP, Ken Mehlman made very big appeals to African Americans, and Republicans fielded a dazzling array of black candidates. But all of them, with the exception of Michael Steele, lost by large margins. Steele came close to beating his Democratic opponent in the Maryland Senate race, Ben Cardin, but black voters still went for Cardin by a three-to-one margin, according to the Washington Post. It's not that African Americans necessarily reject a Republican agenda, but that they suspect Republicans have...