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...familiar sentiment. Steve Leahy, 39, from Providence, Rhode Island had lost his 75-year-old father barely a week ago. ?He?s up there and he?s behind this and that?s why I?m here,? said Leahy. ?My fianc? told me I had to go to the game because dad would have wanted me to be there.? Leahy said that his father passed away shortly after game 5 when the Sox beat the Yankees in the 14th inning. And there were countless others like Jeff Shneider from New York who had attended the 1975 World Series when Boston lost...
Competing against a tough field including champion Binghamton and regional power Rhode Island, the Harvard men’s golf team placed last at the Macdonald Cup hosted by Yale. After a disappointing showing at last week’s Mulekicker Fall Classic, the Crimson fared even worse this weekend, posting only eight sub-80 rounds out of 15 total...
Democrats are still seething over the very public defection of Zell Miller, the Democratic Senator from Georgia who endorsed George W. Bush and trashed John Kerry at the G.O.P. Convention. Now Republicans have a defector of their own to worry about: Lincoln Chafee, Rhode Island's moderate G.O.P. Senator, who told home-state reporters two weeks ago that he probably won't vote for Bush in November. The Senator has opposed the President on such issues as tax cuts, the decision to go to war in Iraq and Bush's refusal to press for renewal of the assault-weapons...
...Senator says President Bush hasn't called him but that intermediaries have told him that Administration aides wish he would "just keep quiet." Senate Republicans could retaliate--for example, by denying funds for projects important to Chafee's constituents in Rhode Island. But as angry as they might be over Chafee's defection, G.O.P. Senators are well aware that their slim majority in the Senate could be jeopardized if he were to switch parties, as Vermont Senator Jim Jeffords did three years ago. Chafee says he has no plans "at this stage" to bolt the party. But Republicans know that...
According to Heymach, Robbins was not to be seen for the next three days. Finally, he called all of Robbins’ friends, eventually reaching his roommate’s parents down in Rhode Island...