Word: second
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...Crimson defeated the Big Red in all 27 contests in its home opener, the second time this season Harvard has won all of the games played on a match day. The Crimson remains the only team in the top 10 that hasn’t suffered an individual match loss among teams active thus far in the campaign...
...didn’t really believe that I could win because he was just really doing a lot of stuff better than I was,” Michas said. “In the second game, I saw him keeling over a little bit, and I knew at that point I could go on and win the rest of the match mostly on my fitness and being able to last a little bit longer...
...Lavoie began his match with a little more power than Michas, winning both the first and third game, 12-10, but he lost his second and fourth games by identical scores of 5-11. Coming into the final points, Lavoie cruised to an 11-8 win, giving Harvard its 6-3 victory...
...second problem with Obama's agenda is that although he wants to cut deals with regimes like Iran's and movements like the Taliban, he's not in a particularly strong position to do so. Back in 2002 or 2003, when the U.S. looked almost invincible, the Iranians appeared willing to concede a lot simply to forestall a U.S. attack. Now, with the U.S. mired in Afghanistan and Iraq, they are less afraid and thus less willing to deal. Similarly, the Taliban have little incentive to break with al-Qaeda so long as they feel they're gaining momentum...
Montana Senator Max Baucus, the powerful chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and a key player in health-care reform, has been involved with his share of feisty women. His second wife Wanda Minge was arrested in 2004 for fighting with a woman at a suburban Virginia garden store. (Minge was reportedly upset that she was not being helped by the staff at a garden supplies shop with loading mulch on to her car; the charges were eventually lowered to misdemeanor assault and a plea deal avoided prosecution.) The 2007 holiday season was the last time in their quarter-century...