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Harvard’s 2004 campaign began with an extended southern road trip, where a pair of 3-1 losses to Rhode Island and Coastal Carolina left Harvard scrambling to come together on defense, but in the final game, the Crimson edged Furman 1-0 on sophomore Charles Altchek’s header in the 33rd minute...
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...Collins, 52, is less lonely at lunch, she's still often looking for more G.O.P. allies when she votes. Today's U.S. Senate contains only four solidly moderate Republicans (Collins, Rhode Island's Lincoln Chafee, Maine's Olympia Snowe and Pennsylvania's Arlen Specter). They increasingly face pressure from fellow Republicans to conform. But in a closely divided Senate, their votes can be determinative. Which is why G.O.P. Senators seeking to end judicial filibusters heavily courted Collins' vote as she remained uncommitted...
...diseases. Fellow Republican lawmaker Charles Bass of New Hampshire gave her a chapter from Hatch's 2002 memoir Square Peg, in which the Senator explained his own conversion on the stem-cell issue. But the most compelling appeal, Wilson says, has come from a House Democrat--James Langevin of Rhode Island, an abortion foe who is also a quadriplegic as a result of an accidental gunshot wound suffered when he was a teenager. "When Jim Langevin talks to you about this," says Wilson, "he speaks with a certain understanding that the rest of us don't have...
Annual injuries from backyard trampolines have nearly doubled in the past decade, according to researchers at Rhode Island Hospital and Hasbro Children's Hospital. Nearly 75,000 kids now end up in emergency rooms each year because of such injuries, more than 2,000 of which are serious enough to require hospitalization...