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...heels of a nine-game winless streak that had only recently ended with a Crimson victory against Dartmouth on Jan. 27.Although Harvard seemed to be a strong contender to win the ECACHL title at the beginning of the year, winning four in a row and besting long-time rival Cornell, the Crimson’s recent losses have set the team behind in the playoff race. The Crimson is currently short of fourth place – and the ECACHL playoff bye – by four points.When the whistle blew to start last night’s game, Harvard...
...lunch in Atlanta, refueled in Oklahoma, and then spoke at dusk in Long Beach, California. He slept on the redeye back to West Virginia, where his schedule called for about three hours in a hotel Tuesday morning before he had to speak again to another cheering crowd. His chief rival and confirmed nemesis, John McCain, toured Romney's backyard in Boston, before heading on to New York, New Jersey, then to California and, finally, Arizona. Mike Huckabee, meanwhile, had retreated to an evangelical southern strategy in states like Arkansas, Alabama and Tennessee...
...from the couch for another beer, you were certain to miss a key play or substitution. A new poll in California, for instance, that showed Romney pulling ahead. Or another press conference in which McCain called out his chief rival as a big spender without backbone. Or the stump speech at Georgia Tech, where Romney told everyone that McCain would collapse the "house that Reagan built." Or a supporter, like former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, who blurted out at a Nashville pancake place that Republican "bigwigs" were "lining up like lemmings" behind McCain. Or another endorsement. Or another television...
...American who went missing in May 2005 after a night out on the Caribbean island of Aruba. Acting as the prosecution: Peter de Vries, a Dutch crime journalist, who presented his eagerly awaited take on the case on a Dutch commercial television station. The advocate for the defense: a rival channel, which aired an interview with one of the prime suspects in the case. Left in the dust as hapless bystanders were the official prosecutors in Aruba, who have failed to bring anyone to trial almost three years since Holloway was last seen leaving a nightclub with Joran...
Fireworks blazed over the Belgrade night sky on Sunday as the crowd celebrated the victory of the incumbent Serbian President Boris Tadic over his ultranationalist rival Tomislav Nikolic. Tadic, a pro-Western former psychology teacher, won by less than a 3% margin in the tightest presidential race in Serbian history since the defeat of Slobodan Milosevic almost eight years...