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Inevitability is a nice talking point - it signifies confidence and momentum - but, alas, it isn't true. In Washington, nothing is inevitable except the humidity. In the early 1990s, people liked to say it was just a matter of time before Congress passed health care reform, and here we are 15 years later, still waiting. If we're still waiting for serious climate legislation even 10 years from now, our chance to avert catastrophe will be gone...
...committee. "Can I see how many people in this room I told that this was going to be easy?" he asked. "If anybody signed up thinking it was going to be easy, then I didn't make myself clear." A win in Iowa, Obama promised, would give him the momentum he needed to win across the map - but his backers wouldn't see much evidence of progress before then. "We're up against the most formidable team in 25 years," he said. "But we've got a plan, and we've got to have faith...
...Columbia squads, both the men and women fell to the Lions as well as Penn, while the women also dropped a close 14-13 contest to Brown. Each team finished third in the Ancient Eight. “The break in the middle really took away some of our momentum,” co-captain Samantha Parker said. “It was hard to come back and just start fencing again after intersession...It was hard to do that when we didn’t have as strong a team as we did in years past...
...when it faced conference opponent Penn, notching a 6-3 victory and upping its league record to 4-0. After the squad’s undefeated streak in its Ivy matchups, the Crimson hoped to be in contention to win the league title. But Harvard failed to maintain its momentum and fell in its last two league games. Princeton gave the Crimson its first conference defeat, sweeping the squad, 9-0, and knocking Harvard out of the running for the title. The Crimson met Yale three days later to battle it out for the second-place spot in the Ancient...
...nation in pass efficiency defense, wilted under the steady assault of senior quarterback Chris Pizzotti and his receivers. On the game’s opening drive, Pizzotti hit sophomore Matt Luft for a 40-yard touchdown strike that gave the Crimson a 7-0 lead and instant momentum just 1:08 into the contest...