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...very emotional night for everybody,” Beal said. “We were just really disappointed with the way we’d been playing. At least we can leave with our heads high, [although] it still doesn’t take away the sting of what happened, in terms of the failed promise that we had.” The Crimson was able to win the final game of the season for the first time since 2001, and in the process kept itself from finishing last in the Ivy League. Harvard ended the year with...
...sting those who rattle me. Don't mess with me, Condoleezza." HUGO CH?VEZ, Venezuelan President, lashing out at U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice after she stated that Venezuela had become a "challenge to democracy...
...that Stone asked Cahow to adopt in the wake of the team’s loss to Sweden. She joked that with one medal of each color she now possessed a complete set. The letdown of not getting a chance to square off against Canada will wear off, the sting of finishing third will fade, but the memories accumulated during her Olympic experience will endure.Ruggiero and five of her Harvard compatriots were afforded the opportunity to participate in winter sports’ seminal event, a global festival of athletics and communication, and women’s hockey, with the signs...
...targeting the problem without going after the workers directly--an acceptable solution for the sensitive political ecosystem of the Hamptons. Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, who mainly oversees the more working-class communities west of the Hamptons, takes a more direct approach. Levy, a Democrat, has initiated sting operations on local contractors and helped towns bust lawbreaking landlords. His police also forcibly removed day laborers from a Farmingville 7-Eleven parking lot. Levy says the voters in his county appreciate his strong arm. "There's a tremendous disconnect between the public and these do-nothing politicians," he says...
...public relations problem for the administration. Late last week, according to the Albany Times-Union, lawyers for an Albany man accused of trying to sell missile launchers to terrorists asked a federal district court to dismiss the charges because evidence leading to his being targeted in an FBI sting operation was allegedly obtained by warrantless wiretapping. Gonzales was asked on CNN about terror suspects and wiretapping evidence. "I can't speak to specific cases," he said. "What I can say is we believe the program is lawful." But since not everyone sees it that way, the President might decide...