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...just because everyone else is doing it and responsibility seems like a sucker's game. Retailers report that gun sales are up, because the Democrats are back and crime is expected to rise and civilization as we know it to break down. Someone somewhere is stirring the tar and plucking the feathers for Lehman's Richard Fuld and Merrill's Stan O'Neal and of course Bernie Madoff of the $50 billion swindle, because absent any effective sanction, we're all vigilantes...
...Harvard men's basketball team pulled off a stunning upset of Boston College tonight in Chestnut Hill, Mass., beating the No. 17 Eagles by an 82-70 margin just three days after BC upset then-No. 1 and undefeated North Carolina on the Tar Heels' home floor in Chapel Hill...
Boston College's victory over North Carolina on Sunday made national news as the first loss of the season for the Tar Heels, who had beaten all their previous opponents by an average of 20 points per game. The Eagles moved into the top 25 for the first time all year after the upset, and will likely exit the polls next week after the loss to Harvard...
...father-in-law's help with strategy, and he became the first Democrat elected governor of Illinois since the 1970s. He also had a bit of luck. His Republican opponent's last name was also Ryan (though Jim Ryan is not related to the disgraced former governor), which helped tar the GOP candidate with the outgoing governor's problems. Even so, Blagojevich won with a relatively narrow 52% of the vote...
Democrat Udall beat former Congressman Bob Schaffer for a vacant seat. The son of longtime Arizona Congressman Mo Udall, who mentored John McCain, he benefited from his 2002 House vote against the Iraq invasion and from his green cred, which allowed him to tar his opponent...