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...highlights of the Harvard schedule are playing at Michigan just before Thanksgiving and at Providence just before Christmas. The cruelty is that the Crimson could start its Ivy campaign 6-0 and still wind up with a losing record, with the only two of its last eight games at home coming versus Penn and Princeton...
...they have a slight weakness, it’s the pace of the back four, so we tried to use our pace to get in behind them, which we were quite successful at,” Binghamton coach Paul Marco said.“The wind did play a big role,” Altchek said. “[On] our clearances out of defense in the first half, we had a hard time getting it out of our zone, and they were able to come back and attack.”But late in the second half, the unit...
...Bearcats who held possession of the ball for most of the time, keeping it down on Harvard’s defensive end and forcing the Crimson to step up its defensive play in order to keep Binghamton at bay. Making the task harder was the fact that the wind was on the side of the Bearcats at the time, helping the ball go their way.“The wind did play a big role,” said forward and captain Charles Altchek. “[On] our clearances out of defense in the first half...
...customary pattern in which local loyalties and personalities dominate, this has indeed turned out to be the relatively rare phenomenon of a nationalized midterm election. The last time it happened was when Newt Gingrich led the Republicans to a surprise victory in 1994. This year, Democrats have had the wind at their backs all year long. Though George Bush is not on the ballot, his unpopularity is a drag on Republican candidates who are. Voters also tell pollsters they're distinctly pessimistic about the direction of the country and deeply skeptical about the conduct of the war in Iraq...
...exit polls suggest that Democratic candidates came into the election with the wind, not a wall, at their back. And it was not only increasing opposition to the Iraq war, which voters had all along told pollsters was their biggest concern and which ranked as an important issue to two-thirds of voters. An even greater factor may have been the backwash from a series of GOP scandals, with three-fourths of voters citing corruption as an important factor in deciding their votes. Democrats also appeared to be winning back the constituencies that had so contributed to Republican victories over...