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After becoming just the fourth NFL team to finish the regular season undefeated, following Saturday's determined 38-35 comeback win against the New York Giants, New England has sewn up an astounding achievement. (The Pats are the first squad to finish a 16-game season undefeated.) It's even sweeter for the team because prior to this year, many experts thought Belichick was losing his touch. He revamped a team that was just one win away from the Super Bowl by trading for All-Pro malcontent Randy Moss. But Moss has behaved, and he and quarterback Tom Brady...
...Hampshire primary by 9 percentage points. But it was Bill Clinton who after staring down the media over an alleged affair with Gennifer Flowers and questions about his draft status during Vietnam turned a second-place finish into a triumph. "Tonight, New Hampshire's made me the Comeback Kid ... I've proven one thing: I can take a punch." Those two sentences defined the rest of the race - and arguably, Clinton's presidency...
...everyone can be the Comeback Kid. For a campaign that pulls up lame, but isn't ready to be euthanized, viability is the play. For some, this means a creative interpretation of the results, such as Senator Joe Lieberman declaring after the 2004 New Hampshire primary that his fifth place finish was, in actuality, "a three-way tie for third place." But there's danger in the viability strategy, danger exemplified by Howard Dean. After finishing a disappointing third in '04, Dean declared: "We're going to South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North Dakota and New Mexico...
...were largely upstaged by the vastly more complex - but radiation-free - MRI scan. Overall, few docs would disagree that the MRI is a better test. Except for being somewhat less sharp when looking at bone, MRI is clearly more sensitive and versatile. But CT scanning has made a huge comeback in the past five years. Almost every office day of late I?ve gotten new patients who have had CT scans in the emergency room - scans that I don't really need to treat them...
BOSTON—Time literally ran out on a strong comeback effort by the Harvard men’s basketball team, as the Crimson (4-9) fell to Northeastern, 76-73, at Matthews Arena on Wednesday night.Trailing by eight with just over a minute remaining, Harvard battled back and had a chance to tie the game when Huskies guard Baptiste Bataille missed two free throws with his team up three points with 4.2 seconds left. Sophomore forward Pat Magnarelli grabbed the rebound and fed sophomore guard Dan McGeary, who had already hit four three-pointers in the game.But as McGeary...