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...Green in New York City, Harvard fell behind by 18 points in the second half and, despite pulling to within four with a minute to play, couldn’t come all the way back in a 68-62 defeat. Junior Emily Tay (an All-Ivy First Team pick) led the team with 22 points, and Hallion added 18 in her final collegiate game. Cornell went on to represent the league in the Big Dance, and with the loss, the Crimson was left wondering what to make of its season—it had accomplished its goal of a repeat...
...polls close in South Dakota. The fourth-largest state in terms of area (but with fewer than one million people and only three electoral votes) was long accustomed to being flown over by presidential candidates. But this year, both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are working hard to pick up a majority of the 17 delegates apportioned by primary voters, plus eventual endorsements from eight independent superdelegates...
...once proposed bringing over British cattle suffering from mad cow disease to roam the countryside setting off an estimated 11 million mines buried there. More conventional approaches to demining all have their flaws. Armored mine-clearance vehicles only operate on flat terrain; metal detectors are terribly inefficient because they pick up all the non-lethal bits of metal in the ground; dogs can smell the explosive in a land mine, but tend to get bored and run the risk of getting themselves blown...
...read ‘Love Story,’” Gordon said, “I could pick out little parts of all kinds of roommates and friends we had that he sort of rolled into one character in the hero of ‘Love Story...
...Reagan had indeed tapped Bush to be his Number Two -- in part to unify the party, because the other options were worse, but also because Bush would have been a credible president if anything happened to a 68-year-old Reagan. Amid all the talk about who McCain might pick as his partner today, it's wholly accurate to say Mitt Romney is unlikely to get that call from Sedona. There is no love between McCain and Romney; the two men don't care for each other, come from different wings of their party and have said some things that...