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Indeed, two Harvard fumbles led to a 14-point swing against Dartmouth. Andy Laurence's fumble on the goal-line stopped a last-gasp drive in the closing minutes, while a Kweli Thompson fumble in the Crimson end zone gave the Big Green a touchdown early in the game...
Slowly, the momentum went back the Tigers way, and this swing culminated in a game-tying goal midway through the first half...
...With "swing" Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy lobbing skeptical questions at Colorado's solicitor general, who was defending the state's anti-gay-rights measure, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that could yield the most important discrimination decision of the new term. At issue is whether Colorado voters violated U.S. Equal Protection guarantees when they approved a ban on laws or policies forbidding discrimination against homosexuals...
Marsalis began the evening with a characteristically unequivocal statement of his mission: "We came here to swing." With his irrepressibly jocular style, he described the LCJO's commitment to the music of Duke Ellington while carefully distinguishing the group from a repertory band. Though the evening was devoted to Ellington's music, Marsalis declined to term it a tribute. Rather, he explained, they just believe in playing his music. He ended his preface to the first set with some comments on the past few weeks on the road, offering a somewhat elusive remark about how this had been the "antebellum...
...first. But the Nation of Islam leader also envisions a day of muscle flexing. He and his co-organizer, ex-N.A.A.C.P. head the Rev. Benjamin Chavis, will run a huge voter-registration drive in an attempt to turn one of the country's weaker constituencies into a powerful swing vote. And he has urged black entertainers, black athletes and all black males who cannot attend the march (as well as black women and children) to engage in a one-day work and shopping boycott. "We're closing down on that day," he has said. "We are absenting ourselves...