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...Harvard, ranked 21st in the nation before the meet, defeated No.8 Virginia...
Facing some of the nation's top wrestlers--including ten teams ranked in the top 25 and many of last year's NCAA contenders--the Crimson finished in the middle of the pack at thirteenth. Though unable to match last year's ninth place performance, the weekend was highlighted by several individual performances that landed three Harvard wrestlers a second, third, and seventh place finish...
...already earned. Rechul's decisive 6-2 defeat of Boe Rushton of Boise State guaranteed him the seventh place spot. Rechul, who came close to defeating Penn's All American Bandele Adenyi-Bada at the Ivy Classic, continued to prove this weekend that he can contend with the nation's best...
...from his stump speech, and he flunked another of those SATs journalists seem to have taken it upon themselves to give him: Asked what he had learned from a biography of former secretary of state Dean Acheson, which he said last week he was reading, Bush offered "that our nation's greatest export to the world has been, is and always will be the incredible freedoms we understand in the great land called America," and other generalities from his stump speech, but said nothing about Acheson. John McCain took the opportunity to jump in with a supposedly knowledgeable comment about...
Bill Clinton must have been licking his chops last week when a National Academy of Sciences report listed medical error as one of the nation's leading causes of death - and called for some measure of health care reform. Clinton's foiled attempt at sweeping health care reform remains one of the great failures of his domestic agenda. And so, in an attempt to beat the rest of the political world to the punch, Clinton announced a plan Monday to drastically reduce the number of medical errors perpetrated each year, which the NAS report listed as causing upwards...