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...teammates hit me,” Matera explained. “I had wide open shots and I just happened to hit them...

Author: By Christina C. Mcclintock, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Sweeps Massachusetts Teams with Win over Minutewomen | 1/7/2010 | See Source »

...that? There's no upside for them. There have been a few cases where open-access colleges that don't have much to lose will try to get their data out there. A couple of years ago, I wrote a column about the University of Nebraska at Omaha - there's the University of Nebraska, which is the one with the football team, and Omaha is the commuter campus. The Omaha campus administered the Collegiate Learning Assessment, and when they issued a press release saying, "We did really, really well," they were yelled at and condemned by a lot of people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holding Colleges Accountable: Is Success Measurable? | 1/7/2010 | See Source »

...bipartisan work on climate change. On the Democratic side, the death of Massachusetts' Ted Kennedy, the retirement of John Breaux of Louisiana and the loss of South Dakota's Tom Daschle, along with the bitter wounds from years of being in the minority, has left the party less open to cooperation. "The Senate is a nasty and brutish place now compared to anything I've seen in 40 years, and it's still better than the House," says Norm Ornstein, author of The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Senate Retirements Point to Dems' Uphill Election Fight | 1/7/2010 | See Source »

...Even relations within the parties have gotten testy of late. On Tuesday, Pelosi, in answering a question about President Obama's unfulfilled promise to open up health reform negotiations to a new level of transparency, took a swipe at the "number of things that [Obama] was for on the campaign trail" that have been left undone. Senator Blanche Lincoln, an Arkansas Democrat, ripped into her colleague Ben Nelson of Nebraska for "horse-trading" his vote on health care and called for the special Medicaid funding provisions he won in return for his support to be removed from the final legislation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Senate Retirements Point to Dems' Uphill Election Fight | 1/7/2010 | See Source »

...Democrats in the fall is that they keep all five vulnerable seats in the Senate and lose only 15 seats in the House. There may even be a shot at picking up a couple of new seats to help offset any losses. After all, House Republicans are defending nine open seats (which John McCain either lost or won with less than 60% of the vote in 2008), while Democrats are defending seven seats (which Obama either lost or won with less than 60% of the vote). And in the Senate, Dems have strong candidates for the open GOP seats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Senate Retirements Point to Dems' Uphill Election Fight | 1/7/2010 | See Source »

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