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Harvard lost the first two games against the Big Green, 9-15 and 7-15. The Crimson battled back to win the next two games, 15-9 and 15-12, to set up the deciding fifth game...
Harvard's win against the Dartmouth set the Crimson up for another showdown against Princeton, whom it had beat in the regular season in three easy games. Because the Crimson was now playing in the consolation bracket because of the earlier loss in the tournament to the Tigers, Harvard would have had to win its fifth-round match against the Tigers and then another best-of-three-game tie-breaking match in order to decide the champion...
...gets to the Oval Office, the theory goes, that fire will get him through the even tougher days and nights. For McCain, the challenge is not to prove he has the fire, but the opposite: that if he carries the McCain flame into the White House, it won't set the mansion ablaze...
...first Commander in Chief to snap his pencils out of pique. Bill Clinton is famous for his purple rages, usually directed at his staff. Eisenhower's fits were volatile but short. Kennedy said anger was a luxury, but his 1962 negotiations with steel companies over price controls were set back when he quipped that his father was right to have called steel executives "s.o.b.s." Nixon's anger was more corrosive. He expelled pure poison on the White House tapes and had particular enemies chased by the irs. L.B.J.'s long-standing feud with Bobby Kennedy caused Johnson to descend into...
...Set aside that Bush replied to a question about the Middle East peace process by talking up missile-defense systems at a time when Israelis and Palestinians are engaged in sensitive negotiations. And never mind the fact that he probably meant the Mediterranean Sea, along which Israel has a lengthy border, and not the Red Sea, on which it has but one port. There was something else jarring about what Bush said. There is no such thing as an "inter"-ballistic missile. These mistakes may seem minor, but taken together they suggest that Bush is still under water when grappling...