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...over setbacks and alter the parameters of victory, if not make a run at the rules defining victory itself. When winning the nomination proved to be mathematically impossible, the Clintons made much of the media take seriously the notion that what was more important was surviving until the final round and then prevailing in a winner-take-all vote decided by the people of South Dakota and Montana. (Or, failing that, superdelegates...
...first two runs came from solo home runs by freshman Ellen Macadam and junior Hayley Bock. The second batter of the game, Macadam launched one to left-center, the third homer of her rookie season. Bock led off the following inning with a blast to center field, her sixth round-tripper this year.Harvard led 2-0 into the bottom of the third, when Princeton caught up with a two-out, two-run homer. Sophomore Dana Roberts took the mound for the first five innings. Facing 20 batters, she struck out three and allowed three runs off five hits. Sophomore reliever...
...races [on Saturday] and found ourselves in a qualifying position and thought, ‘Hey, we can do this.’”The Crimson advanced to the final six for the first time this season and held a 2-2 record in the final round going into the last race of the regatta, tied for third place with Tufts. Harvard and the Jumbos went head-to-head in the final race with a spot at nationals on the line. “It came down to the absolute last race with Tufts,” Dolbec...
...Iraqi militias, the government said. Details of the evidence presented in Tehran remains hazy, but at the same time American officials in Baghdad and Washington have never offered a convincing case publicly to support their allegations. [In the meantime, Tehran announced that it would not hold a new round of talks - the third of their kind with American representatives - regarding security in Iraq unless the U.S. ceased its operations against Iraqi Shi'ites. American forces have been working with the Iraqi Army against Shi'ite militias in Baghdad's sprawling slum, Sadr City...
...election commission is appointed by Mugabe's Zanu-PF regime and its independence has therefore been suspect. The rationale behind the regime's month-long wait before releasing the result and, then, its announcement of another round seems simple: delay and regroup. Mugabe's regime indicated a few days after the poll that it knew Tsvangirai had beaten Mugabe. (The state-controlled Herald newspaper reported Mugabe had failed to win reelection and predicted a second round runoff.) Meanwhile, the Election Commission announced that the MDC had won a majority in parliament and a few days ago confirmed that result after...