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...played more confidently and came out with an edge about us,” Housman said. “We’ve been coming out flat [during the season] and I think today people were thinking from the get-go that we could win this game outright instead of having to build a comeback.”Harvard amassed a 10-point lead with 7:35 to go, but costly turnovers and domination on the boards allowed Cornell to creep back in. Collectively, the Big Red pulled down 35 boards, including nine offensive rebounds. Tyler, shooting...
...saying that Hillary Clinton must “decisively” capture Texas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania to claim the nomination. Why? No one doubts that if she fails to win a majority of the votes in both Texas and Ohio on March 4, her chances of winning the nomination outright are negligible. However, a week ago (with Hillary leading slightly in the delegate count), the commentators told us it was a draw. Now, with Obama having seized the momentum (and leading slightly in the delegate count) the commentators would have it that it is incumbent on Hillary not simply...
...vacate my seat, you may ask, if I take issue with your style, substance and mission to fracture the Republican Party? The reason is simple: leaving the talk would have meant giving up a rare opportunity to peer into the bottom of the American political barrel and the outright perversion of dialogue and the English language. Note that I didn’t stay because I was outraged or secretly thrilled by your audacious accusations and asides; the experience was more like staring at a car wreck. I don’t know, Ms. Coulter, if you thought...
...recent subprime mortgage crisis has closed the doors to American homes and hedge funds alike. The most commonly cited explanation for this is that an unforeseeable collapse in home prices forced homeowners to refinance their adjustable-rate mortgages at unrealistic rates, resulting in payment delinquency and outright default...
...today’s Republican party, it is acceptable to make pernicious remarks against Hispanics in the name of border security. Outright racism is only thinly veiled. But it’s especially ironic that Mitt Romney, for the sake of political expediency, now attacks the immigration of citizens from the very same country that gave protection to his great-grandfather, grandfather and father and still hosts his cousins, nephews and nieces...