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...touch of self-deprecation. Admittedly, a little swagger was in order that night: With 38% of the vote, the incumbent mayor led a crowded field of 22 candidates in Saturday's primary, beating his closest rival and runoff opponent, Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu, by a 10,000-vote margin. But for all of Nagin's good humor, his victory may not be enough to carry him back into office in the May 20 runoff. Nagin's "chocolate city" remarks alienated many conservative white voters who helped propel the political novice to office four years ago, and there was lackluster turnout...
...conditions. Both varsity entries sped out to open-water leads before the 1000-meter mark and spent the latter 1000 adding more open water to an already one-sided race. “Once you get through a crew, you want to push harder just to continually widen that margin,” said sophomore varsity four-seat Joe Medioli. “The focus is always on widening the gap—getting open water and sitting is a serious problem because it gives the other crews hope.”Hope, at least for Penn and Navy...
...going to happen, but we had a good match,” O’Riain said. The Crimson led the Bulldogs 7-6 in each doubles match before O’Riain and Anderson finished off Rashmee Patil and Olivia Nix by an 8-6 margin. Yale evened the score of the remaining two matches at 7-7 but Wang and Schnitter in the No. 2 spot clinched the doubles point with a 9-7 win against Aimee Kim and Christina Cutter. Mukundan and Peterzan followed in the third position with a 9-7 victory over Lindsey Dashiell...
...moves planned throughout the race, and we took them,” Kauble said. “It just seemed like Navy knew they were coming—and they were ready to exploit the fact.”The Crimson used its own strong base to keep the margin to two seats after both crews settled into the first 500. Then both crews passed the 400-meter mark, and Navy began steadily accumulating seats to its narrow lead. By the halfway point, Navy stood close to a length up.“When we went to make a move...
...post.The Hawks led 9-1 at halftime and 11-1 after three quarters.Sophomore driver Melissa McCreery scored Harvard’s second goal in the fourth quarter.HARVARD 14, UTICA 4Harvard opened the tournament by scoring on its first seven possessions of the game and cruised to a ten-goal margin of victory over the No. 5-seeded Pioneers.Keyser led the Crimson with four goals, while Liao and sophomore utility Cassandra Forsyth each scored twice. Six other players scored once for Harvard.In a high-powered first quarter, the Crimson scored four times before Utica could get a shot on Harvard?...