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After an RBI double from Nick Cox to tie the game, the Lions scored a pair on a Nick Ferraresi bases-clearing double to open up a one-run lead that they would not relinquish...
...Rice University, the women’s distance squad was more than ready on Friday. In one of the first races of the day—the women’s 3000-meter event—a pack of Harvard runners took the lead from the start, refusing to relinquish its position. Junior Claire Richardson crossed the line first with a time of 9:59.33, followed four seconds later by Crimson sophomore Nicole Cochran. Sophomore Jeanne Mack and juniors Hilary May and Jamie Olson grabbed the third through fifth positions. Fifteen more seconds lapsed before a runner from a different...
From there, the Crimson co-captain proved why he earned the top ranking in the nation. Opening the second period with a reverse, O’Connor took a 5-2 lead that he would not relinquish. As Pami made a number of charges through the second and third frames, O’Connor held strong to capture the title. The senior slowly removed his headgear with wide eyes after the referee raised his hand...
...shirts, whose numbers are drawn largely from Thailand's poor rural regions, began descending on Bangkok by bus, truck, boat and tractor for what they deemed their final stand: a massive march to force the yellow-backed government to hold elections, which the reds believe will favor them. "Relinquish power and return it to the people," went the rally cry from protest leader Veera Musikapong. (See pictures from Thailand's April 2009 protests...
...Relinquish power and return it to the people," protest leader Veera Musikapong shouted from a stage festooned in red banners as about 50,000 protesters erupted in cheers under a torrid midday sun at a major junction in the old quarter of Bangkok. Protest leaders have said that if the government refuses its ultimatum by Monday, they will set the demonstrators loose around the city, blocking traffic and surrounding key government buildings in an effort to force the Prime Minister to dissolve the House of Representatives and call a new election. (See "Thailand Braces For Anti-Government Protest...