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Some Democratic Party leaders, including Kennedy and Senator John Kerry, have called on Clinton to pull out of the race if she loses tonight in Ohio. With John McCain all but assured of winning the Republican Party nomination, they worry that an expensive and increasingly heated battle between the Democratic frontrunners would divert finite money and time away from preparing for the general election...
...Further surprises had yet to unfold. In the first overtime, George Washington scored a power play to pull ahead of the Crimson, 7-6. However, MacLaughlin leveled the score...
...enough good things to win the game and enough poor things to lose the game.”WILD WHISTLESWhile Harvard’s missed opportunities and Colgate’s strong play were the driving force behind the deadlocked score, the Crimson’s efforts to pull away in the third period were also frustrated by two close calls that went the Raiders’ way.The first came with two minutes left to play in regulation, when the Colgate net was dislodged after an extended scuffle for several loose rebounds in front of goaltender Mark Dekanich. With Harvard...
...race if she does not do well, and her own husband has said she must win both to survive (though the campaign has of late been saying that Clinton has to win just one of the two big states). But if she can pull it out, she gets what her own advisers describe as a chance to "reboot" her foundering campaign - and six weeks before the next big contest in Pennsylvania, in which she can try to regain the momentum that once made her look unstoppable for the Democratic nomination...
...support for Hamas. As one housewife in Jabalya watched the injured victims of an Israeli air strike being carted into an ambulance, she shouted, "Keep hitting them with rockets. Take revenge for our children." Military sources say that after the initial thrust, the cabinet is now deciding whether to pull back or go into Gaza much harder and deeper, with division-strength troop numbers, to crush Hamas' organization and leadership. This is likely to be postponed until after the U.S. Secretary of State returns home, probably empty-handed, from her talks with Olmert and Abbas...