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Down 40-0 and facing match point, she won five straight points to tie the score at five games apiece before dropping the next...

Author: By Caleb W. Peiffer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Women’s tennis co-captain Bergman wraps up Harvard career at NCAA Singles Championship. | 5/25/2005 | See Source »

...lets the minority party drag on debate unless the majority can muster 60 votes to stop it. In response, Democrats, who point out that Republicans used other procedural tricks to block more of President Bill Clinton's judicial nominees than Democrats have blocked of Bush's, have vowed to tie up the Senate in other ways. The Senate could be headed for this historic showdown in part because it anticipates an inevitable one down the line: a full-blown confirmation brawl over the next Supreme Court nominee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Posse in the Pulpit | 5/16/2005 | See Source »

Though co-captain Courtney Bergman and sophomore Elsa O’Riain led 6-3 in the No. 2 position, they also allowed Tennessee’s Melissa Schaub and Ghizela Schutte to take three straight games and tie the score at six. This match was left unfinished, however, due to the victories in the No. 1 and No. 3 spots...

Author: By Barbara R. Barreno, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Tennis Moves On to Sweet 16 | 5/16/2005 | See Source »

...dubbed the Dean of Magic by the Society of American Magicians; in Chicago. An opening act for performers from Frank Sinatra to Milton Berle and a frequent guest on the Ed Sullivan Show, he would banter with his brash puppet, Lefty, and perform signature tricks like the Jaspernese Thumb Tie, in which his crossed thumbs, securely interlocked, penetrated spectators' legs, chairs and other objects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones May 23, 2005 | 5/15/2005 | See Source »

...expertise in navigating crises; in Washington. The courtly intellectual's feats of diplomacy included persuading the deposed Shah of Iran to leave the U.S. for Panama during the Iranian hostage crisis; helping manage the media during Clinton's Whitewater flap; and urging onetime client Mick Jagger to wear a tie to Washington's tony Metropolitan Club. A lifelong Democrat, he recently served on President Bush's commission to investigate pre-9/11 intelligence failures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones May 23, 2005 | 5/15/2005 | See Source »

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