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...foreground that concern in Saturday’s victory. “We didn’t even talk about it,” Murphy said. “Just keep on the positives, get back in the race today, and the kids responded.” FLAGS A-FLYING Harvard committed six penalties for 65 yards on Saturday, the most yardage the Crimson has been penalized for this year. Cornell was penalized five times for a loss of 55 yards. “We weren’t happy at all,” Murphy said of the penalties...
...country's zone can be extended only if it can prove that the continental shelf into which it wishes to expand is a natural extension of its own territory. In August 2007 two Russian submersibles reached the bottom of the North Pole and left a titanium-made Russian flag there. Putin alleged that the expedition delivered proof of Russia's claims, though few believe it is good enough to substantiate Moscow's claims under international...
...Laden: "Both have friends that bombed the Pentagon," he said. "That is scary." It is also not exactly true - though that distorted reference to Obama's controversial association with William Ayers, a former 60s radical, was enough to get the volunteers stoked. "And he won't salute the flag," one woman added, repeating another myth about Obama. She was quickly topped by a man who called out, "We don't even know where Senator Obama was really born." Actually, we do; it's Hawaii...
...election. Obama's gamble is that the public - worried at the beginning of the campaign, terrified now - is ready for greater government support and regulation of the health-insurance system. That assumption has always been a sure loser in American politics. Republicans have perpetually and successfully waved the bloody flag of "socialized medicine." But the employer-provided-health-care system is fraying, costs to average families are rising, and almost everyone has a friend with a horror story. McCain's plan is a half-baked vestige of Reagan-era ideology: it tilts the incentives away from employer-provided health insurance...
...Besides, I don’t have to worry about the future of my home state, since I don’t plan on living there ever again. Virginia sucks, blue or red. I think I’ll raise the white flag in this ridiculous Culture War and move to California...