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...back Cheng Ho added a two-point conversion, putting Harvard ahead 21-0, which remained the halftime score after a field goal by junior Matt Schindel was blocked on the last play. The second half was a defensive struggle, with the lone scoring coming on a 37-yard touchdown strike from junior Liam O’Hagan to junior wideout Corey Mazza early in the third quarter. That was to be the only scoring, however, as the Crimson defense continued to dominate. Harvard held Dartmouth to just 183 yards on the day and forced five turnovers, two on interceptions thrown...
...nothing against Obama. The notes of caution that have been raised about his quasi-candidacy - his youth, his lack of legislative experience, his excruciating even-handedness - still strike me as his chief selling points as a politician. His mere presence in the 2008 campaign would have the potential to elevate the political discourse, transcend America's red-blue divide and maybe even make the country a better place. The trouble is what happens the morning after. Whoever prevails in November 2008 will inherit a welter of foreign-policy challenges, courtesy of the Bush Administration, that could well dominate much...
Hussain and his co-workers received emotional support last night from Clara Vargas, a janitor at the University of Miami who described her 17-day “water-only” hunger strike before her union and the school’s subcontractor reached a deal...
Streisand and others need to recognize that they lack credibility in commenting on politics. Dropping the F-bomb at a concert may be disturbing, but it doesn’t strike me as a credible or convincing way to get one’s message across...
...Army, the militia loyal to the radical Shi'ite leader Moqtada al-Sadr, which has been blamed for much of the sectarian violence that kills an average of 100 Iraqis a day. And there is palpable frustration among U.S. soldiers patrolling the streets of Baghdad that every time they strike against the Mahdi Army, they are publicly scolded by the Iraqi prime minister. "Every time he does one of these about-turns, he makes the Madhi Army stronger and the government weaker," says a Western diplomat in Baghdad. "And of course, it drives the [Americans] up the wall...