Word: tilts
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...back to its winning ways. On Friday night at Lavietes Pavilion, that remedy came in the form of the Columbia Lions. Led by the freshman trio of Katie Rollins, Emma Moretzsohn and Emily Tay, Harvard coasted to an 86-63 thrashing of Columbia in a home league tilt. It was the first action for the Crimson since a heartbreaking last-second defeat against Brown earlier in the week, but Harvard seemed to have little trouble bouncing back and disposing of the Lions (4-14, 0-5) for the 40th time in 41 all-time tries. The Crimson relied...
...Tilt To The Right The Conservative victory was due in part to disenchantment with the Liberals. But under the deft hand of Tory tacticians, Harper morphed from the scary image drawn by his rivals before the June 2004 vote into a middle-of-the-road politician. And his party's minority status should ensure that he won't venture too far from the center of Canadian politics--at least for the life of the coming Parliament...
...chasm exists between big cities and God's country. "This whole red-state-- blue-state thing is absurd," he says. "The film has performed amazingly in Little Rock, Birmingham and Fort Worth, Texas. The fact is, Americans are Americans. There may be places where their politics in the aggregate tilt one way or the other, but do you cross a state boundary and turn into some other kind of animal? No. Americans talk to each other. Americans are listening to each other. And Brokeback is proving...
...scheduling oddity of the week heading into the two Harvard-Dartmouth games was the Big Green’s playing of several non-conference contests. It even faced Stony Brook for a non-conference home tilt in the interim of the two Harvard matchups...
...seem more inclined to buy one another's assets and invest in proven reserves than go hunting for new sources. Conoco Phillips recently bid $35.6 billion for Burlington Resources, one of the world's largest natural-gas producers. In the contiguous 48 states, easily accessible fields are running full tilt. "We've had great success finding new reserves, but these are unconventional sources--low-permeability gas sands, shale gas, coal-bed methane," says Peter Dea, CEO of Western Gas Resources, a Denver-based gas producer. Longer term, more supplies are on the way. The U.S. Interior Department last week opened...