Word: runner
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...Socialist Party leader Fran?ois Hollande and centrist presidential candidate Fran?ois Bayrou were both slated to give testimony for the defense on Wednesday. Pre-empting the appearance of his rivals, Interior Minister and presidential front-runner Nicolas Sarkozy provided a letter that defense attorneys read "lending my support to your paper, which is rooted in the old French tradition of satire" - one, he noted, that "allows us in the name of liberty to laugh at anything...
...Crimson is now alone in second place.No. 6 Harvard (17-4-2, 14-3-1 ECAC) took over sole possession of runner-up position in the ECAC this weekend by taking care of business in two easy road victories against Union and RPI. “In our position right now,” co-captain Jennifer Sifers said, “we don’t get the chance to play anyone above us in the rankings. So it’s more important to focus within the ECAC.”Sifers led the way with her first...
...That is what it became.” Finkton, who was the subject of a vocal cheering section in the Lavietes Pavilion stands, hit a free throw with 1:05 left to record the first point of his career, and Okereke, in his first career appearance, hit a runner in the lane in the game’s final minute. FREE THREES The Crimson continued its season-long trend of hitting its free throws, making 20-of-22 shots from the stripe, including its first 18. The success at the line was largely overshadowed, however, by Columbia?...
...Surprising Colgate has used upset wins over the first-place Big Green and the fourth-place Saints, coupled with a 10-2-1 mark against the league’s bottom two-thirds, to move into a second-place tie with Harvard in the conference standings. Neither front-runner nor upstart, the Crimson’s upcoming opponents are studies in the final two levels of quality in the league—the opportunist and the doormat. Union is definitively the latter; the Dutchwomen are working on an astounding streak of 58 straight losses in league play, dating back...
...have actually suffered since his announcement, though not by much, probably because of the increased scrutiny. On the Republican side, McCain has been facing worse and worse odds for about a month now, while Romney has been inching his way into plausibility; at 20:1, the only non-front-runner with odds against him running less than...