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...record to 7-0 with its win over Tufts. Crimson coach Peter Brand has called his team’s performance this year “terrific” and yesterday’s meet against Tufts was no exception. In what Brand called “a rout in every respect,” the Harvard sabre and foil squads both went undefeated, going 9-0. The epee squad also had a strong performance, going...
...years old and nonmilitary artifacts like toys and hairpins were found, indicating the people were civilians not involved in the fighting. "As we can see, the military reports were manipulated," says Park Sun Ju, chief of the excavating team. The group has also investigated American carpet bombings used to rout communist forces during the war, a practice it claims killed thousands of civilians. (See pictures of Seoul, the world's most connected city...
...there parallels to all this in the political world? Despite their rout in November, we haven't seen much rebranding within the Republican Party. What would you tell the party's leaders now? That your language cannot go back to the 1980s because America has moved on. It's not a battle between big government and small government, it's a battle for effective government. It's a battle for accountability, responsibility and oversight...
Purnell was referring to parliamentary elections due by next June, but the results of last week's municipal and European polls - a historic rout for Labour, a solid performance from the Conservatives and gains for fringe outfits including the far-right British National Party - graphically illustrated the concerns that launched Purnell's kamikaze mission. Labour's support has slumped under Brown. It has hemorrhaged support among the affluent voters of Middle England whose endorsement is essential to securing a parliamentary majority, and whom it wooed successfully in the 1990s. And it has been damaged, too, in hardscrabble industrial regions...
...party's rout - Labour's share of the votes fell 7 percentage points, at a cost of five seats in Europe's Parliament - was far more dramatic than any of its rivals' gains. In securing its 13 seats in the European Parliament, for instance, UKIP increased its slice of the vote by just half a point. The Tories, with close to twice the share of votes as Labour's, saw its support climb by only 1 point. Even the BNP, whose two northern English seats included one for Nick Griffin, the party's pugnacious leader, grew its share of polling...