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Yale (7-3, 4-3 Ivy) handed Harvard (5-5, 4-3) its third Ivy League loss yesterday. In all three losses, Harvard held a fourth quarter lead, only to relinquish its advantage and lose control of the game by the final buzzer. Though yesterday's contest against the Elis did not end with a last-second field goal, Harvard held a 24-17 lead and was in the driver's seat with ten minutes remaining in the game...
...unfortunately for the Crimson, Harvard gave Yale more than enough opportunities to comeback, throwing three interceptions and fumbling twice in the last nine minutes. Yale scored the final 17 points of the game en route to its third consecutive victory against Harvard...
...shouldn't have ended this way for Chuck Nwokocha. The senior tailback, whose mother came to watch him play in his final game at Harvard, did all that he could to help his team win yesterday. In the second quarter, the speedy Nwokocha shocked the Elis with a 94-yard kickoff return for a touchdown. It was the longest such return by a Harvard player against Yale, and it was the first TD return for Harvard in 17 years. Despite this Herculean effort, Nwokocha lost to Yale for the third straight time, and for the second and final time...
...counties to submit reasons they should be allowed to revise their vote totals. Three counties - Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade - responded to her in writing by her 2 p.m. Wednesday deadline. But after she reviewed their submissions, she found them unsatisfactory. Harris then declared that she would certify final election results on Saturday after the state's absentee ballots were counted...
...most important actor right now in the Florida legal drama is the Florida Supreme Court. It is the final arbiter of Florida election law. And it has the power to impose almost any kind of remedy it wants, from ordering recounts and revotes to interpreting individual ballots that are in dispute. This could be good news for the Gore campaign. Six of seven Florida Supreme Court justices are Democrats; the other is an independent. Leander J. Shaw Jr., the senior member of the court, is a former public defender; and several others were trial lawyers, a traditionally liberal sector...