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...saying "most of the leaders" of the state's Republican Party is simple southern courtesy in Kentucky. The only leader the state party has had for more than a decade is McConnell, who telegraphed the 1994 national Republican rout in his home state. In a special election that spring, McConnell convinced Newt Gingrich to throw the national party's weight behind Ron Lewis, an unknown Christian bookstore owner, who stunned bluegrass politicos by taking the U.S. House seat held for 41 years by Democrat Bill Natcher. (Natcher had died while in office, creating an open seat, which Lewis...
...Crimson entered the final weekend of the regular season needing wins in two of four games against rival Dartmouth. The season’s high point: Harvard’s division clincher on the final season’s day, a 23-9 rout...
...double, the first of 13 insurance runs that followed sophomore Taylor Meehan’s go-ahead RBI single in the eighth (not to mention sophomore Matt Vance’s critical leadoff triple), turned what had been a hotly contested slugfest into a division-clinching rout. “I absolutely love having him in the lineup,” said senior starting pitcher Matt Brunnig. “He’s in the three-to-five hole, and every time he’s up, there’s people on base. Having his bat there makes...
Only nature had any hope of stopping the Harvard heavyweights on Saturday morning.And as it turns out, nature didn’t have much luck, either. The Crimson varsity heavyweights demolished Northeastern early, then worked to overcome a brutal cross tailwind and terribly choppy water in a rout over the Huskies early Saturday morning on the Charles River. “The water was basically Class 3 rapids,” varsity seven-seat Andrew Boston said. “I don’t know what to call it—it was almost like white-water rafting...
...some valuable things from it that we’re going to take away for the future.”The No. 5 Harvard varsity entered the race as a considerable underdog, as the Crimson fell by a seat to Brown the week before and Princeton had routed Penn by 21 seconds on Lake Carnegie. Recent Princeton-Harvard races, however, have been anything but one-sided, and Saturday’s race began as no exception. A Crimson varsity that had worked all week on racing more aggressively took off from the start with a solid first 20 strokes, jumping...