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...stealing one away from the Big Red, 3-1, in the regular-season finale Saturday night at Lynah Rink.Though the Crimson (14-11-4, 12-7-3 ECAC) and the Big Red (14-12-3, 12-9-1) entered the game tied for third place with Union in the conference standings, Harvard’s victory secured a first-round bye in the ECAC playoffs for the visitors while dropping Cornell to fifth place.The Crimson will have two weeks off before hosting a best-of-three quarterfinal series against an opponent to be determined starting on March...
...senior Dustin Gillanders, who found Mike Werner open in the slot for the go-ahead goal.Rogers’ goal late in the third period would round out the scoring for the game.With the tie, Harvard earned a single point in the standings. Combined with wins by Cornell and Union, the tie created a three-way tie in the ECAC standings, setting up an important battle Saturday night at Cornell’s Lynah Rink with a first-round playoff bye at stake.“It’s going to be great; it doesn?...
...There is no party registration in Vermont, but it was once the most staunchly Republican state in the Union, supporting the G.O.P. in 28 straight presidential elections and enjoying a 108-year gap between Democratic governors. "It was a gray Republican backwater; being a Democrat meant FDR had appointed you to the post office," says John McLaughry, a former state legislator and Reagan Administration advisor who runs the free-market Ethan Allen Institute. An influx of urban refugees and hippie escapists from New York and Massachusetts in the 1960s and 1970s changed everything. Soon Vermont had ski resorts, billboard bans...
...other half is made via ransom kidnapping - the FARC currently holds more than 700 hostages in its jungle redoubts, including three Americans - which is the other reason the U.S. State Department placed the rebels on its list of international terrorist groups a decade ago (as does the European Union today...
Medvedev's rise means the presidency is now in the hands of a Putin loyalist. Yet that doesn't mean Medvedev will have broad authority. True, since the fall of the Soviet Union, power has been centered in the office of the President. Boris Yeltsin was flawed and ineffective, yet held significant powers. Putin inherited them, enhanced them, and transformed the presidency into a source of pride and respect for many Russians. It didn't hurt, of course, that world prices for oil and other Russian natural resources hit sky-high levels, enabling Putin to dole out favors and goodies...