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...Margin of Victory—Athletes on bubble teams will often say, “We wanted to make a statement to the committee by winning big today.” The reality of this is that the NCAA would never allow a selection criteria that encouraged teams to run up the score against hapless opponents...
...proposed law would ban reports that compromise counterterrorist efforts or support opposition to antiterrorist action. Descriptions of devices used during government raids would also become illegal. Though many of the provisions are just restatements of existing law, the bill’s passage by a margin of more than two to one is worrying. This is another weakly-resisted step towards the curtailment of the Russian press, a long-term trend that has recently gained vitality with 15-hour television blackouts, raids on newspapers on orders of dubious legality from the Russian Press Ministry. Russian authorities, infamous for selective enforcement...
Voters rejected Question 3, a non-binding initiative on Clean Elections, by a three-to-one margin. The vote, which effectively urges state legislators to stop funding political campaigns with public money, will likely undo a law that the electorate widely approved in a referendum only four years...
...while voters defeated the Question 1 measure that would have repealed the state’s personal income tax, the margin —just six percent—was thinner than recent polls predicted...
...while the name plates may not shift quickly, more of them may change than before Bush's good night. Previously, advisers had worried that too many alterations in the economic team would look like an admission that the president's economic plans had failed, as Democrats maintain. But the margin of his party's victory, Bush may be less concerned by such perceptions...