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That a loss of four seats is now considered the GOP's best-case scenario tells you how dramatically the party's fortunes have changed. But the real question is whether Democrats can pick up the nine seats they need to grab a 60-vote, filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. At this point, the answer still seems to be probably not. But such able handicappers as Jennifer Duffy of the Cook Political Report now think the Democrats could gain as many as eight seats, which would mean they would need no more than a single GOP vote...
...past decade has been something of a Martian era of space exploration. Since 1996, the U.S. alone has launched no fewer than nine spacecraft Marsward, and seven have arrived in one piece--an extraordinary success rate for a planet that historically had been a bit of a graveyard of failed missions. Currently, six ships--five American and one European--are at work on Mars, and a handful of others sleep peacefully on the surface or orbit silently above, their missions completed and their systems exhausted. While a lot of the work the spacecraft do is the quiet business of spelunking...
...global stock-market rout that ate 18% of the Dow, Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson was forced to import a plan he once considered practically un-American. Paralleling a program authored by U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown, it called for the U.S. government to take partial ownership of nine leading banks and offer to buy pieces of hundreds of others. On Oct. 13, the nine bank bosses, assembled in the Treasury's imposing boardroom, were each handed a piece of paper with the terms: $25 billion of preferred shares each from Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and Bank of America...
...while attending a large public school. He would have definitely applied to Harvard had it been on the list, he said.Princeton happens to be one of the schools that offers non-binding admission through QuestBridge, but Barnett ruled out applying to Harvard regularly since he had already applied to nine schools through the match program.If it came down to a contest between the two, he said, he would have chosen Princeton.Ahmed, the QuestBridge Scholar at Vassar, stressed the value of the program.“My parents together made less than $30,000 in the last year. Definitely...
...soccer team. Austin Harms has already accomplished a difficult feat, especially for a rookie—gaining a starting role on one of the top teams in the country. After starting the first two Ivy League games of the season, Harms boasts a .900 save percentage with nine saves. Yet the California native doesn’t feel any pressure from his new role on the team. “It’s all about how hard you work,” Harms said. “When you perform in situations you’ve got to step...