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...loss to Cornell in 2008 was the Crimson’s slimmest deficit in four years, and Harvard followed that effort with a 13-12 loss last year. After the Big Red graduated several starters, including Tewaaraton Trophy winner Max Seibald, the Crimson and its third-best recruiting class seemed poised to finally dethrone Cornell, the modern titan of Ivy League lacrosse...
Norton lost the closest match of the afternoon. Despite losing the first set, 6-4, she came back to win the second, 7-5. In the super tiebreak, Norton lost by the slimmest of margins...
...House of Representatives passed by the slimmest margins the most sweeping progressive legislation since the Johnson Administration. The Affordable Health Care For America Act was passed by a meager five votes, the ayes coming in at 220 and the nays coming in at 215. Passage was made possible by an eleventh hour amendment proposed by Democratic Representative Bart Stupak of Michigan that forbids health insurance companies from covering abortions for any individual whose insurance is subsidized by taxpayer dollars. We lament that such a reactionary amendment was required for the passage of this landmark bill, but we also recognize...
...remains "unchanged," it's because the North hasn't given Obama even the slimmest reed on which to hang an alteration in policy. Is it possible that today's nuclear test will finally convince diplomats that the North Korea they see is the one they get; that perhaps, on the question of nukes, it simply can't be bribed? North Korean leaders have long cited the year 2012 as being particularly significant for their country. It will mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Kim Il Sung, the nation's founder and Kim Jong Il's father and predecessor...
...vote was all it took to bring down the Czech government. By the slimmest of majorities, 101 out of 200, the Czech parliament backed a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek's fragile center-right coalition government on Tuesday night...