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...press time, the Democrats had won 221 seats and appeared on pace to pick up an additional 13, according to Associated Press projections. Going into yesterday’s elections, Democrats held just 201 of the 435 House seats...
...advice? Or, in their drive toward acceptance and strategic planning, are they forcing students into a pre-packaged mold? Worst of all, are college consulting companies creating a new inequality, allowing well-off students to get into top schools at the expense of those who aren’t? PICK ME, PICK ME!!!William M. Polk, former headmaster of the Groton School, a boarding school in Massachusetts that traditionally sends a significant percent of students to Ivy League schools, saw the rise of the admissions industry first hand. Polk believes the high turnover rate among college admissions officers obscured previously...
...Last May, the Chicago Bears offered Puchtel a tryout, despite the fact that Puchtel had not played football since catching passes at tight end for the Crimson his freshman year. Although the transition back to football was difficult, he showed signs of progression—enough for him to pick up an agent and continue to explore his NFL options. The allure for teams rests in the hope that he can follow in the model of successful college basketball players-turned superstar tight ends such as Antonio Gates and Tony Gonzalez...
...House seats are on the ballot, and officials from both parties at midday were privately predicting a Democratic pick-up of at least 20 seats and maybe more. Democrats need 15 seats to take control of the lower chamber; some Republicans were braced for a Democratic gain of twice that number. The Senate is a longer reach for Democrats, requiring them to pick up six seats, but that is no longer considered beyond their grasp...
Though it looks as though Democrats up and down the ballot will have their best election night since Bill Clinton won the White House in 1992, party officials waiting for the final results say it appears they will fall just short of taking back the Senate. Democrats have picked up Senate seats in Ohio, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania tonight and held onto Senate seats in Maryland and New Jersey-which means the fight for the Senate is coming down to just a handful of races: Montana, Missouri and Virginia. They are still hopeful that Democratic candidate James Webb will knock...