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Still, student computer users in Lamont say they are split on their usefulness...
...dismantling the Lions, the Crimson showed it has the depth to match up against conference opponents. But the team's loss to the Bears was a wake up call. Harvard needs to improve upon this weekend's split in order to make a viable run at the Ivy title...
...signature split the Democratic Party--half the House Democrats, exactly, voted against the measure. The entire White House staff, with only two or three exceptions, wanted a veto, as did the party establishment. Clinton hated the benefit cuts and flirted with vetoing the bill because of them. But he realized that he could probably repeal the cuts in the next session of Congress. He was right. The signature was a move of great political courage, foresight and wisdom...
...about patching himself up and forging ahead, he will face a Congress that's a perfect mirror of the country, as exquisitely divided as the electorate that couldn't choose between Bush and Gore. Depending on who wins the last pending statewide race, in Washington, the Senate could be split right down the middle: 50 Republicans, 50 Democrats. If Bush wins, Dick Cheney would become the Senate's deciding vote. If Gore wins, Joe Lieberman would resign his Senate seat and be replaced by a Republican appointee, giving the G.O.P. a tiny two-vote edge--far short...
...attack becomes a skirmish becomes a battle becomes a war. The first bullet flew on the day after the election when Senate minority leader Tom Daschle, a Democrat with a gift for attacking with a mild half-smile, announced that if the chamber ended up in a 50-50 split, he would demand "power sharing"--a coalition arrangement in which the two parties would negotiate an equal sharing of power and perks...