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...Florida International University.Much like last weekend, it was an up-and-down affair filled with close games for the Crimson, as they finished the tournament with a 3-2 record.Florida International, the only team Harvard did not face twice, took the tournament title with a 6-5 win over Rhode Island in the final.After that game, sophomore hurler Amanda Watkins and senior third baseman and catcher Erin Halpenny were both named to the all-tournament team.Harvard returns to action next Saturday with a game at Villanova, followed by a road date with Iona yesterday.HARVARD 1, MANHATTAN 0Sophomore pitcher Shelly Madick...
...efforts may be getting some new auditors. Over the past three years, Congress has approved $320 billion for military spending over and above the regular Department of Defense budget, which itself has risen about 40% since 2001. But "oversight was lax," contends Senator Jack Reed, Democrat of Rhode Island, who sits on the Armed Services Committee. As Pentagon officials head to Capitol Hill next week to start defending this year's $70 billion request for Iraq and Afghanistan, there's new scrutiny of where all the cash is going...
...result, it?s growing well beyond its original scope: Philadelphia, Boston, the Bronx and cities in Maine, Vermont and Rhode Island have received a total of 45 million gallons of the subsidized Citgo fuel, and other cities are slated for another 5 million soon. That?s a small percentage of the heating oil Venezuela exports to the U.S. each year, but Citgo says it has set aside about 10% of its refined petroleum products for the program. Says Larry Birns, director of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs in Washington, D.C., "Unfortunately for the Bush Administration, Chavez is proving...
...while the pair is following the lead of Karl Rove, the GOP strategist who often hand-picks which congressional candidates will run, they haven?t yet shown they can match his effectiveness. In Rhode Island, Schumer wanted another popular pro-life Democrat, James Langevin, to run, but Langevin passed on the Senate race after abortion rights groups sharply objected. Schumer has been one of the leaders in crafting the party's strategy on judicial nominations, but Senate Democrats put on one of the most feeble challenges of a Supreme Court nominee in recent memory during the Alito hearings...
That first half, however, was all too indicative of a disturbing trend for this year’s Harvard squad: the Crimson has rarely put together a dominant half on both ends of the floor this year. Save for solid wins over Rhode Island and Colgate, Harvard has been sluggish putting the ball in the basket or stopping the other team from doing the same...