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...victory secures the title, but the Crimson still could pull off the championships with a tie. With a Princeton draw against Penn, Harvard wins the Ivy title...

Author: By Nico S. Theofanidis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Enters Weekend in Three-Way Tie Atop Ivies | 11/6/2008 | See Source »

Leone is confident in his team’s abilities and says that if the Crimson is able to play their game, it will pull...

Author: By Nico S. Theofanidis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Enters Weekend in Three-Way Tie Atop Ivies | 11/6/2008 | See Source »

Gays came back in some polls, but they couldn't pull out a win. Part of the reason is that Obama inspired unprecedented numbers of African Americans to vote. Polls show that black voters are more likely to attend church than whites and less likely to be comfortable with equality for gay people. According to CNN, African Americans voted against marriage equality by a wide margin, 69% to 31%. High turnout of African Americans in Florida probably help explain that state's lopsided vote to ban same-sex weddings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Gay Marriage Was Defeated in California | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

...scale back the 150,000 U.S. troop contingent now in Iraq, and shift some of them to reinforce the 32,000 American soldiers now in Afghanistan. While national-security experts agree such a shift needs to happen, the key question is its timing. If U.S. forces are pulled out of Iraq too soon, U.S. commanders there argue, the fragile gains achieved the over the past 18 months could erode, and ultimately bring on a civil war. Obama has said he would like to pull up to 10,000 troops a month from Iraq, a rate some military officers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Easing In Obama as Commander in Chief | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

...campaign closed, a common fantasy among some of McCain's old associates went like this: the old bomber pilot would pull back on the stick before Election Day, right his wobbly plane and mount a clean push for victory. Instead, McCain just corkscrewed into the ground. And so it will be important to see what lessons McCain learns from his campaign and what role he plays as a member of a shrunken minority in Congress. Will he harbor bitter memories of his defeat and the poor treatment he feels he received from his old friends in the national media...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking Past Defeat: How Can McCain Recover? | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

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