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...even eBay. Though The Game sold out the last three times Harvard hosted it, this is the earliest it’s been sold out since 1986, Harvard Athletic Ticket Office manager Erin E. Hobin-Audet said yesterday. Total stadium capacity is about 31,000 people, and every Harvard seat has been sold by the ticket office or distributed to undergraduates, Hobin-Audet said. “We had some bleachers brought in for the end zones. Those were also sold out this year, which we did not have two years ago,” she said. The only Game...
...well because it is a return to character-driven action fare. The 007 formula—Bond is introduced to the gadgets, uses the gadgets, saves the world in the nick of time—is not here, but what remains is a well-executed, edge-of-your-seat thriller. Bottom Line: With all the family-oriented fare and kudo-hungry movies flooding theatres right now, have some escapist holiday fun with Craig. Daniel Craig.—Reviewer Christopher C. Baker can be reached at ccbaker@fas.harvard.edu...
...numbers alone do look like a typical midterm loss for the presidential party: 28 House seats, with 10 races still undecided. Republicans have clung to this math hard in recent days, with even Karl Rove pointing to electoral history to prove that things could have been worse. But Republicans spent most of the year boasting about how the redistricting of the past decade had made them all but bulletproof. Absent those new district lines, says the American Enterprise Institute's Norm Ornstein, "it could easily have been 45 or more." And there are other results that break with past patterns...
Pataki has run the Empire State since 1995, making him the nation’s longest-serving governor. Before rising to his current seat, he served 10 years in the New York State Legislature...
...same time, some of the biggest victories for the Democrats came from liberal candidates. In Kentucky, John Yarmuth, a liberal, anti-war newspaper publisher who the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee thought had little chance of winning, took a very competitive seat that Democrats had repeatedly failed to win in the past. In Ohio, Rep. Sherrod Brown, an unabashed lefty who opposed President Bush's positions more than any other congressman in the country, according to Congressional Quarterly, defeated a G.O.P. moderate, Senator Mike Dewine. A Democrat named Carol Shea Porter who pulled out a stunning upset in a New Hampshire...