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...worth remembering that off-year elections often aren't predictors of the outcome of the next presidential one. The 1994 Republican off-year sweep was followed by Bill Clinton's easy 1996 victory over Bob Dole. The 1986 Democratic take-back of the Senate and the 1987 Iran-contra scandal didn't prevent then Vice President George H.W. Bush from dismantling Michael Dukakis in 1988. 2006 was a bad year for the G.O.P...
...officers. What are the chances that a couple of DJs will put up a fight? That didn’t stop the Fulton Country police department from deploying a SWAT team with guns drawn in a RIAA-sponsored copyright violation bust. Or take the South Carolina high school drug sweep where SWAT officers forced kids to lie prone at gunpoint as dogs searched their lockers (no drugs were found...
...about it: we need to win the ECAC tournament to go the NCAA tournament,” Tobe says. As it prepares to face this win-or-go-home challenge, the Crimson has never been in better shape. Harvard enters the playoffs riding the momentum of a season-ending sweep of Colgate and rival Cornell, a solid weekend of play that ranks as perhaps its best of the season. During those two final games, the Crimson proved it could do all of the things it had struggled to do all year: score even-strength goals, deliver on special teams, play...
...Green has played well as of late: they dispatched Princeton last Friday to sweep the season series from the Tigers, then played an inspired game against Penn Saturday night, leading late in the game before eventually falling...
...playoffs,” senior co-captain Jennifer Sifers said. “We’re not going to be lacking in confidence just because we lost to them during the season.” Harvard enters the semifinals on the heels of a two-game series sweep in the quarters at home against Yale. However, the Crimson must now travel to Dartmouth and navigate a potentially hostile home crowd and the one foot of snow that is forecast to fall there today. Five of Harvard’s six losses this season have come on the road, including...