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...Though Dartmouth had been mired in an eight-game losing streak, forward Alex Barnett poured in 30 points to lead the Big Green. During the decisive overtime period, Barnett scored six of his team’s 13 points and also added a crucial steal that stopped Harvard’s comeback attempt. In the teams’ last matchup, when Harvard won at Dartmouth 63-62, Barnett was held to only nine points...
...Captain Andrew Pusar, who scored 19 points on 8-of-11 shooting in his last game against Dartmouth, also helped with a big three-pointer down the stretch that brought the Crimson to within 62-60, setting up Lin’s late heroics. Pusar finished the game with eight points and four rebounds...
...Forward Keith Wright had a big game on the glass with 13 rebounds, well above his 5.4-per-game average. Wright also contributed eight points...
...landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, President Barack Obama repealed a Reagan-era policy that prohibited foreign nongovernmental family-planning groups from receiving U.S. funds if they provided abortions or even lobbied for abortion rights in their country. It is an action his abortion-rights supporters have waited eight years for and one they had encouraged him to waste no time taking. But by first issuing a statement urging support for common-ground efforts to reduce abortion rates and then waiting to sign the Executive Order late on a Friday afternoon - a time traditionally reserved for the release...
...major political parties on the issue of abortion, in part because incoming Presidents have taken action on it within days of entering the White House. Bill Clinton repealed the policy on Jan. 22, 1993, citing his concern that the ban prevented women and children from receiving health services. Eight years later, George W. Bush reinstated the policy on Jan. 22, 2001. "It is my conviction," Bush said, "that taxpayer funds should not be used to pay for abortions or advocate or actively promote abortion, either here or abroad." (View new fronts in the abortion battle...