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...score of 16-3 in the first game of a doubleheader on Saturday. The Crimson was on the brink of victory in the nightcap, but Wichita State rallied to tie the game and force it into extras. Yesterday’s series finale resulted in a 13-2 rout of the Crimson and capped a disappointing weekend. “We have to shake off those cobwebs every year that first weekend,” captain Matt Vance said. “We’ll get better.” WICHITA STATE 13, HARVARD 2 A relentless Shocker lineup...
...long, lonely trip up to Ithaca, N.Y., and things didn’t get much better for the Harvard women’s basketball team after the Crimson got off the bus.Cornell dominated Harvard on the glass and made seven first-half three pointers en route to a 85-61 rout of the visiting Crimson. The 24-point loss was Harvard’s most lopsided (13-9, 5-2 Ivy) Ivy League defeat since a 95-70 loss against Brown in February 2004 and put the Crimson on the outside looking in on the Ivy title race...
...Disappointing policy results, hotly challenged reform proposals, and peaking public disgust with his overexposed private life have fueled a dizzying plunge in Sarkozy's approval ratings. That darkening image could have consequences. Just five weeks before the first round of nationwide municipal elections, rightist candidates fear a possible leftist rout in cities across France as voters signal their displeasure with Sarkozy's national leadership...
...There was only one way to describe Barack Obama's victory over Hillary Clinton and John Edwards in South Carolina: It was a rout. "After four great contests in every corner of this country, we have the most votes, the most delegates, and the most diverse coalition of Americans that we've seen in a long, long time," Obama declared at his victory celebration in Columbia. "There are young and old; rich and poor. They are black and white; Latino and Asian and Native American. They are Democrats from Des Moines and Independents from Concord, and yes, some Republicans from...
...mini-meltdown, and the Federal Reserve Board wasn't about to let that go unanswered. Before the U.S. markets had even opened, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke--not a man known for dramatic gestures--slashed a key interest rate three-quarters of a percentage point. The surprise move arrested the rout, and the markets have since rallied, but investors are left to absorb an unavoidable truth: the U.S., still the world's biggest market for exports, appears to be in real economic trouble...