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...this perception speaks to the outrageous level of factional division in the Senate. Thirteen Republicans voting for a minor bill is barely worthy of discussion, historically speaking. In years past, legislation regularly passed by such margins and garnered little media attention when it did. Yet, today, every measure seems split on party lines. Hostility and blind partisanship are the going order, and, as such, Brown’s adherence to basic representational duties has been mistakenly considered noble...
Harvard’s final victory was the 400-yard freestyle relay, the last event of the tournament, once again beating out Navy by a .71-second margin. McKeller had the second-fastest split in the race...
Cutter had the fastest split on the relay team, finishing his leg in 1:38.85. Tyrrell pointed out that he had never had a split faster than...
...freestyle relay, McKeller, as the anchor, had the fastest split, swimming his leg in 20.35 seconds. He also finished third in the 100-yard butterfly and fourth in the 200-yard butterfly. Cutter and sophomore Ross Ford finished fifth and sixth, respectively...
...more likely scenario is that the grizzlies will snatch polar-bear cubs as they emerge from their winter dens or vice versa, says Rockwell. Most intriguing of all is the possibility that the two species might interbreed. "These guys only split off evolutionarily about 150,000 years ago, so hybrids are viable," he says. That's no speculation: DNA analysis has proven that a bear shot in 2006 in Canada's Northwest Territories was part-grizzly, part-polar bear; the names "grolar bear" and "pizzly" have been floated in reference to it. (The hunter who killed the animal was spared...