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...continued to gasp at the show’s jokes (I’d paid $9.75 for this?) until the final scene. We were sleepily groping our way back to Lowell when I realized I’d left a Kodak disposable under my seat...
...thriller over Cornell that broke the tie between the two teams at the top of the Ancient Eight standings. A loud and proud Lavietes Pavilion crowd chanted “Ivy champs!” as the team moved into the league driver’s seat: with wins in its next two games at Brown and Yale, Harvard would win the title outright and return to NCAAs.“I just remember it was so loud in the gym, my heart was pounding,” junior forward Katie Rollins said. “I remember thinking...
...shush, her voice being drowned out by the roar. "We are not the current administration who plays lose with rules," Germond continued, her voice rising a little desperately to dampen down the onslaught of outrage that was just beginning. "I'm feeling very badly that we can't seat Michigan and Florida in full," she virtually yelled over shouts of "Shame...
...lunch turned into a three-hour closed-door session, during which the members finally agreed on a compromise - though it was basically the position taken by the Obama campaign, not to mention the one Republicans smartly came up with for their side long before the disputed primaries took place: seat both delegations but grant each only half a vote per delegate as a penalty. In what the Obama campaign called a "gift" to Clinton they agreed to seat Florida's delegates based on the results of that state's January 29th primary, yielding Clinton a net gain of 19 delegates...
...committee also voted to seat Michigan's full 157-member delegation, each with half-a-vote. But because Obama had (along with John Edwards) taken himself off the ballot, figuring out how to apportion the delegates was much trickier. Following a plan endorsed by the Michigan Democratic Party, the committee voted to allot Clinton, who won 55% of the vote, 69 delegates, and Obama, who most believed was the overwhelming choice of the 40% of Michigan primary voters who chose "uncommitted", 59. If the delegates had been meted out based strictly on the actual vote Clinton should've gotten...