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...paper that precinct captains handed out and then collected on the night of March 4, when roughly one million people turned out. Some precincts were so overwhelmed with attendees that some precinct chairs went to Kinko's to run off extra ballots while others, according to the AP, simply tore down the "DEMOCRATS VOTE HERE" signs and used the backs for signatures - one column for Clinton, another for Obama. About 300 people showed up at one caucus site in Austin only to discover the small building arranged for the meeting (and which might have accomodated 50 people) was locked...
...dropped opening round bouts to the top-seeded wrestlers at 157 and 165 lbs. and would not advance in the consolation draw. It was instead the future of Harvard wrestling that shone brightest. Sophomore J.P. O’Connor, ranked first in the tournament and second in the country, tore through the 149-lb field after a first-round bye. But, the All-American came up short in the finals, losing 5-4 to Penn’s Cesar Grajales. “Sometimes you have to face hurdles,” O’Connor said...
...captain Vivian Liao launched the game-winner.“Scoring a goal with the last shot was pretty exciting,” Snyder said. “But it was probably more exciting than we would’ve liked.”MacLaughlin once again tore it up in the pool, scoring five goals and drawing four ejections. Liao—along with her game-winner—finished the game with a hat trick of her own as seven different scorers notched goals.HARTWICK 17, HARVARD 8The first night of action for Harvard came to a bitter...
...Harris finally misses a free throw, but manages to cut the lead to six. That's short lived however, as Columbia's #55 gets another basket down low. He tore up the Crimson last time these two teams played and he's back to old antics tonight. [Columbia 43, Harvard...
...were killed, the school formed committees to carefully consider the building's fate. "Right after the tragedy, emotions were high, very high," recalls Frank DeAngelis, the school's principal for the last dozen years. The committees dismissed suggestions to demolish the building. "There was the belief that if we tore down the buildings, the two murderers would have won," DeAngelis says, referring to the high school seniors who staged the Columbine attacks. Instead, the school opened the floor of the library where most of the students were murdered to create an atrium above the cafeteria. The school built an extension...