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...Double Dare’ stuff.” However, band members said they enjoyed the battle. Konopka told a fan after the show, “it was fun! People got slimed!” Although OK Go lost the competition—their fate sealed by a rout in a game of “Guitar Hero”—the Grammy-winning group received a consolation trophy depicting a basketball player attempting a slam-dunk, with a plaque that read: “Nicholas D. Kristoff [sic], Pulitzer Prize Winner, Spring 2006.” Meanwhile...
...Crimson. Over an 18-minute span that began near the end of the first half and stretched far into the second, Harvard gave up 10 consecutive goals, letting the game get way out of hand. What had been a 6-4 battle turned into a 16-4 rout. “We’ve been having trouble giving up runs all season,” Barlow said. “It was a two-goal game for a while, and then they pulled ahead by six, seven, eight. We thought we were in the game, it was going well...
...Crimson (15-16, 10-6 Ivy) pulled out a 2-0 win in game one behind a dazzling one-hitter by junior Shawn Haviland, but the pitching imploded and the bats went quiet in game two, leading to a 13-0 rout by the Bulldogs...
Will Musharraf join the fight? Though the U.S. is pressing Musharraf to do more to rout terrorists in Pakistan, his political survival still depends on parties that resent his ties to Washington. There is a widespread view in Pakistan that Vice President Dick Cheney, during his trip to Pakistan two weeks ago, reprimanded Musharraf for failing to rein in the militants. But officials on both sides say the partnership between Bush and Musharraf remains solid. "Is it doing more? Well, yeah, it's doing more. We all gotta do more, do better, do different. It's a war," says...
...hoped to hang onto the seat in an increasingly Red State, Blanco's announcement blew the race wide open. If the news was disheartening for her supporters and her party, it was perhaps more dismaying to her political enemies, who were clearly relishing the prospect of an all-out rout as the G.O.P. planned a run against her Katrina record...