Word: streaks
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...Crimson’s blistering streak has propelled the team back into NCAA Tournament discussion, albeit very much as a bubble team. Harvard is currently in a tie for 16th in USCHO.com’s PairWise Rankings (PWR), a system that tries to predict teams’ potential to make it to the Dance. Although 16 teams will be selected for the Tournament, at least two automatic bids will be doled out to teams that currently stand outside of the PWR’s top 16, leaving the Crimson on the outside looking in. While it?...
It’s an age-old question in sports: is it beneficial for a team on a sizzling streak to have a bye in the first round of the playoffs...
...only moments whereI’m angry.RR: What’s the angriest you’ve been in recent memory?AM: That’s a tough one. I’m not that much of an angry person. Perhaps I havemore of a diplomatic streak in me.RR: How did so many mellow people get into this cast?AM: Well, I’d say Jeff [C. Witt ‘09] defi nitely has the ability to fl are up. You mighthave sensed that. He’s not an angry person in general, but he defi nitely...
While Obama’s 13-primary winning streak sounds quite impressive on the surface, a closer look reveals that many of these states will be insignificant come the general election. Seven of his victories, including the delegate-rich Virginia, have come in states that haven’t voted for the Democratic candidate since 1964. Two more—Alabama and South Carolina—haven’t gone blue since 1980. Thus, while Obama’s victories in these states are impressive, the likelihood that he can capture any of these votes in November?...
...what we ought to be working for." Yet, both Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have also maintained that the current confrontation with Iran should be resolved diplomatically. But Fallon, when he got outside of Washington, let his independent streak - a tradition among naval officers - say things to TV cameras and reporters that back in the capital he would confine to closed-door meetings at the Pentagon. And the hawks who had been most sanguine about pressing the case for invading Iraq had also been urging a more confrontational line...