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Fortunately for Harvard, Madick kept her composure, throwing a perfect strike that ended the threat and sealed the team’s third consecutive...
Gone too, argues Ickes, is the other big strike against Clinton: that she's not as electable as Obama in a matchup against John McCain. Polls have lately shown Clinton faring better than Obama against McCain--in one recent poll, 7 points better--in part, Ickes says, because of her enduring popularity with key Democratic constituencies in the states that matter the most in a general-election campaign...
...missile strike that killed Somalia's most notorious Islamist insurgent, Aden Hashi Ayro, has dealt a major blow to al-Qaeda's allies operating in East Africa. The deaths of Ayro and up to 10 others were announced early Thursday by spokesman for his al-Shabab militia, while the U.S. military confirmed it had struck what it called an al-Qaeda target in Somalia, but offered no details. Al-Shabab spokesmen said the men were killed early Thursday by a U.S. air strike on a house in Dusamareeb, a few hundred miles north of Mogadishu. "Infidel planes bombed Dhusamareb," Shabab...
...trailing 5-2 in the bottom of the seventh. With Madick pitching, Dartmouth put runners on first and second. Then Madick hit a batter to load the bases with only one out. The ace showed her trademark poise, however, and got the final two batters to strike out looking. “I could feel myself getting a little tense and I tried to breathe through it,” Madick said. “It was sort of good that they got some people on base to make me make my pitches when I need to make them...
...ninth inning, shoddy Dartmouth pitching and defense combined with timely Crimson hits to bring Harvard back into the game, as the team strung together eight runs in the frame to steal the game from the Big Green.Dartmouth pitcher Bobby Steinsdoerfer failed to find the strike zone on a consistent basis, and when he did the Crimson had his number. A walk, two wild pitches, a pair of hit batters, and five Harvard hits led to six runs, as the Crimson chased Steinsdoerfer.Reliever Kyle Zeis did not fare much better. The Dartmouth hurler mimicked his predecessor in terms of control problems...