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...teams expected to make a serious run at Harvard’s league title—drops to 1-2. Early on, the game was a showcase of both teams’ offensive potency: the first six minutes saw hot shooting and a fast pace on both ends as the Crimson jumped out to a 17-9 lead on 7-for-10 shooting. But the Tigers kept the game close with some accurate shooting of their own, getting timely points from guard Caitlin O’Neill (nine points). A jumper from senior Meagan Cowher cut Harvard?...
...Thousands of N'Djamena residents took that swaggering as a sure sign it was time to flee, and French troops picked up the pace of their airlift. By noon Monday, the French Army said it had transported more than 800 foreign nationals to Gabon, around 570 of whom have been flown on to France. Another 200 are waiting to be evacuated from Chad. Around 1,500 French soldiers are stationed in Chad under bilateral security accord...
...Critics, however, have been skeptical about the results. "The film has been made for audiences ranging from the Spanish coast to the Urals, passing through the Acropolis," wrote La Croix. "The result is a flat dialogue, jokes which are barely funny and a sluggish pace." Le Monde described it as a "vacuous gigantic stewpot," L'Express called it "French cinema's first bling-bling film," while Libération said it was a "tragic potion...
...makes third parties much more viable in the next cycle thanks to federal funding. Since the 1970s, a party nominee who reaches the five percent threshold in the general election qualifies his party to receive federal funding for its candidates. Though federal funding may not be enough to keep pace with Clinton and Obama, it would easily be enough to make the Libertarian candidate a household name. Part of the problem with building up confidence in third parties is that the two major parties have a stranglehold on the media, and it is in their self-interest to advance...
...move at the pace that I need to move in order to get it right,” he said. “Everybody would like it to be done, we’d all like to be moving on, but this is an important position and I’m taking my time to get the right person...