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...lightweight thriller than a serious political memoir. Yet Cherie Blair's book has already had a heavy impact on Gordon Brown, her husband's successor as Prime Minister. Struggling to reassert his authority after his Labour Party was savaged in municipal elections this month, and eager to avoid another rout in a byelection on May 22, Brown urgently needs to convince the public and his own party that he has the right qualities to lead Britain...
...Senate race turned into a rout, with Obama taking nearly 53% of the vote in a three-way race. Not only did he score a landslide victory in the African-American community, but he also handily won a pair of ethnic-white wards on Chicago's Northwest Side. And he won a third of the vote in downstate Illinois, backed by college students and farmers...
...continued its woeful season at the plate and watched suddenly hot Columbia (9-16, 5-1) thrive in wet, frigid weather yesterday. The Lions swept the doubleheader, taking the first game, 2-0, behind a complete game shutout from Joe Scarlata, and hitting their way to a 10-2 rout in the nightcap. “We just needed something to happen, and the bats were silent,” Harvard coach Joe Walsh said. “Whether it was 92 degrees today, it still could have been 10-2.”“They got their...
...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...