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...loss of Balcetis is another piece of bad news for a Crimson squad that has suffered its fair share of misfortune since the second half of last season. After getting picked to finish second in the league in last year’s preseason Ivy media poll, Harvard lost eight games in a row late in the season to finish 5-9 in league play. This year, the team faces life without graduated captain Matt Stehle ’06, the two-time First Team All-Ivy forward who carried the team on both ends of the court, as well...
...Harvard men's basketball team was picked to finish seventh out of the eight Ivy League teams this year in the 2006-07 preseason media poll, which was released on Tuesday...
Fifteen of the 16 media members from the eight Ivy areas who voted in the poll picked the Penn Quakers to come in first. Penn, the defending league champion which has won four of the past five Ivy crowns, returns two first-team All-Ivy performers in senior guard Ibrahim Jaaber, the reigning player of the year, and senior forward Mark Zoller...
...exit polls in Virginia show that Bush has, for him, an unusually high approval rating of 45% in the state. Furthermore, while Iraq was not far from the voters' minds, they told pollsters the economy and terrorism were more important, with 45% and 44%, respectively, saying they were "extremely important." These are precisely the issues that President himself believed would turn the elections around; as he told reporters yesterday, "I thought when it was all said and done, the American people would understand the importance of taxes and the importance of security." Just 41% of Virginians in the exit poll...
...helped Ortega, 60, who insists his politics are more moderate today - he is widely viewed as more of a cynical opportunist than a radical Marxist - to take advantage of a divisive feud inside Montealegre's Liberal Constitutionalist Party that ended up splitting its vote this year. As Ortega's poll numbers climbed, the Bush Administration went into panic mode, publicly campaigning against him as it decried equally unabashed efforts by Venezuela's left-wing anti-U.S. president, Hugo Chavez, to boost Ortega. Roger Noriega, who until last year was Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, wrote that...