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...Liberal bloggers and their readers helped to swing the Connecticut Democratic Senate primary to anti-war candidate Ned Lamont, raising expectations that the midterms would turn this new generation of online activists into kingmakers. Yet in the midst of a Democratic wave, the netroots candidates failed to sweep, causing some pundits to claim that the netroots' influence continues to be overstated: "The Netroots Election? Not So Fast," editorialized The Nation. When Rick Perlstein tried, in The New Republic, to claim the election as a netroots triumph, Ryan Lizza replied in the magazine's blog that in addition to having...
...lines, says the American Enterprise Institute's Norm Ornstein, "it could easily have been 45 or more." And there are other results that break with past patterns, Ornstein adds. Democrats did not lose a single seat - a feat the party had not accomplished since 1922. Even in the Republican sweep of 1994, the G.O.P. lost four of its open seats to Democrats. What's more, the wave swept all the way down the ballot - for instance, handing the New Hampshire House to the Democrats for the first time since...
...into a nightmare just as the Ivy League season kicked into high gear. After beginning the season 5-0 in non-league play with quality wins over Holy Cross and Vermont, validating its preseason No. 2 ranking, and improving its record to 10-5 after a home-and-home sweep of Dartmouth, the Crimson began to veer off course when it suffered an excruciating 79-77 loss to Cornell in Ithaca. Harvard led by four with just over a minute to play, but let it slip away after three of its starters fouled out late, a signal of the game?...
...Beijing's newest and tallest skyscraper is to die for. Still months from completion, the upper floors are currently enveloped by the usual chaos of construction, but there are glimpses of what will be a spectacular, 360-degree panorama. The outlook to the west is particularly stunning--a sweep down the wide swath of Chang'an Avenue, past the Forbidden City, over roofs and parks all the way to the hazy crests of the Western Hills. It's the best view in China's booming capital, and you would expect one of the country's corporate titans to be taking...
...Harvard women’s volleyball team closed out its 2006 season with a split on the road this weekend, sweeping Brown, 3-0, and losing to Yale by the same score in matches that showed the extent to which the team had meshed throughout the year.The Crimson (11-14, 5-9 Ivy) finished sixth in the Ivy League, undershooting high expectations heaped on it at the beginning of the year but showing a marked improvement over last year’s winless record in league play.Despite the tough loss to Yale, the team’s spirits were generally...