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Harvard set the tone for the game early, as junior Emma Markley won the opening tip and sent the ball to sophomore Brogan Berry, who penetrated through Yale’s man-to-man press and scored a driving layup only six seconds into the game. The teams traded baskets and the lead for the first seven minutes of the game until the Crimson began pounding the ball inside, opening up an 11-point lead with seven minutes remaining in the half...
...Crimson also took advantage of Yale’s full-court press, which allowed Harvard to beat Yale players off the dribble and prevented the Bulldogs from being able to help inside on Markley or freshman Miriam Rutzen, who contributed nine points off the bench...
However, it was freshman Victoria Lippert who benefited most from the Bulldogs’ sub-par press, as most of her game-high 21 points came off drives to the hoop...
...cynical opposition that cares only about dragging him down. Warriors on both sides have rushed to the mattresses to win every petty squabble and 15-minute news cycle. While candidate Obama admirably rejected the artifice and showmanship of politics, even the White House now regularly joins the fray, with press secretary Robert Gibbs often using the briefing-room rostrum to score points. Engaging in such antics might produce a short-term high, and might even yield some short-term victories, but it is no way to make friends or achieve anything meaningful for the country...
...Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, a Democrat, told Fox News on Friday. "I mean, in the states we were all hoping to see a robust jobs bill, and we're confounded by this action, absolutely confounded." And fellow endangered incumbent, Senator Blanche Lincoln, an Arkansas Democrat, said in a press release that she hopes Reid "will reconsider. [The Baucus-Grassley] bill was carefully crafted to achieve significant bipartisan support...