How in the world do I reduce the distance between the date displayed above each new entry and the new entry title on template 6? I’ve altered every variable I can think of and I can’t change it.

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I added

margin-bottom: -10px;

to your

.date {
background: transparent;
color: #990033;
margin-bottom: -10px; /* added to reduce space underneath */
}

and that seemed to fix it. =)