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Still, defeating RPI meant a virtual clinch of a top-five finish for the Crimson and home ice for the first round of the playoffs. Harvard is now ahead of the Engineers by three points with two games remaining. A tie will send round one to Bright fro the first time since 1997-98. But third place is important because it will mean avoiding the Thursday play-in game should Harvard win its first round series and advance to Lake Placid...
...Engineers received a golden chance to tie up the game when at 19:02 McCulloch got whistled for a questionable hooking call that put the Crimson down two men for all but the last 13 seconds of the game. Kim took a tripping minor at 17:47. Not only was Harvard at a five-one-three disadvantage, which became six-on-three with Marsters pulled, but two of Harvard's best defensemen were...
Looking at the big picture, the Crimson's discouraging defeat on Saturday does little to affect the overall conference positions. Harvard shook Dartmouth off its back and moved into a tie for third place with Cornell, leaving the Big Green alone in fifth place...
Friday night witnessed six hotly contested matchups, with every ECAC team battling to a one-goal game or a tie. Saturday's games were a bit more wide open, but featured a handful of key upsets and victories. While Union toppled Harvard, Princeton defeated a fledgling Vermont squad and an inconsistent Yale squad moved in to sixth place by ringing up the Big Green...
...often cited: new White House counsel Alberto Gonzales, who logged two years on the Texas Supreme Court and has a thin paper trail; and Emilio Garza, a federal appellate judge in Texas who is further to the right--and volubly opposes Roe. Republicans hope that a Hispanic pick would tie Democrats in knots, although for some Senators, antiabortion views would outweigh diversity. Naming a woman in O'Connor's place would be a similar tactic. Edith Jones, another quite conservative federal judge in Texas, has been on the G.O.P. list for years. A less well-known option: Janice Brown...