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...rebounding, providing a tough matchup for the Crimson inside.The Terriers’ winless record masks the squad’s talent, as two of the losses came to ranked opponents (No. 1 Duke and No. 19 George Washington) while the other three were at the expense of Michigan, Rhode Island, and Rider.“When you play the top competition, it can only make you better and can lead to permanent improvement,” Sullivan said.Harvard has lost the last four meetings between the two schools and hasn’t won a road game in this series...
...lure some guerrillas to the negotiating table, it still faces a seemingly inescapable quandary: so long as U.S. troops are involved in combat in Iraq, there's every reason to believe the insurgency will be able to recruit sufficient numbers of motivated new fighters to do battle with them. Rhode Island Democratic Senator Jack Reed, a former Army paratrooper who was briefed privately by military officials during a visit to Iraq in October, says U.S. commanders are striving for what some describe as "minimal compliance": establishing just enough stability so that "the country is not going to collapse...
...Pioneers (1-1), who were the preseason last pick in the Northeast Conference, shocked Albany after hanging tough with Rhode Island. Sacred Heart is led by senior forward Kibwe Trim, who has posted 20.5 points and five rebounds per game in the Pioneers’ first two contests. Trim has had to step up due to the absence of all-conference junior swingman Joey Henley, who has missed Sacred Heart’s first two contests with a leg injury suffered during football season...
...after halftime expecting to see a tightly contested second half and maybe even a Rams victory. They would be denied and completely overwhelmed by the women in crimson. The Harvard women’s basketball team erupted for 54 second half points—more than the University of Rhode Island would score for the entire game—to take what had been a close game at halftime and turn it into a 77-48 blowout at the Ryan Center in Kingston, R.I. last night. For the Crimson (2-1), it was the second straight time it had defeated...
...subtle pro-choice campaign will be tricky to pull off because it won't mesh with the high-volume voices of outside groups opposed to the nomination. A national coalition including the country's two largest pro-choice groups, NARAL Pro-Choice America and Planned Parenthood, launched ads in Rhode Island, Maine and on national cable last week. NARAL has launched a grassroots campaign among 27 affiliates around the country timed for the Senate's Thanksgiving recess that will target members by requesting meetings, writing letters to editors and circulating petitions...