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When George W. Bush was reelected president last November by a margin of 3 percent of the popular vote, his first act was to claim an unambiguous mandate to govern the country. Since then, the policies of the second Bush administration have veered fundamentally from the moderate, centrist agenda he stressed during his campaign. The unwillingness of our chief executive to take the necessary steps to reach across party lines and ideologies has paralyzed his own initiatives and distracted a divided country sick of partisan bickering...
Dorsch pulled away with the second set, 6-4, and he hung on to the third set by the same margin, earning his second ticket to the tournament’s finals...
Harvard stayed even with both Washington and Princeton as the boats headed toward the midway mark. Cal seized a lead early in the second 500 meters and continued to increase the margin...
...boat had jumped Harvard off of the start in the teams’ previous two meetings—finally held the advantage for a full 2,000 meters on Saturday. After relinquishing a four-seat lead in the Harvard-Yale dual race and a near boat length margin at Eastern Sprints, Yale took off and never...
...boats crossed the finish line in heat time order, with Yale taking first, Cornell second, Penn third, and Harvard fourth. Yale posted a 5:41.89 time and Cornell followed in 5:43.39, a margin far wider than the 0.1 seconds that separated the Bulldogs from the Big Red for second place at Eastern Sprints. Penn crossed in 5:44.71 and the Crimson came next in 5:45.45, narrowly beating out the Hoyas...