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...much as BMF is “home base,” Marcus G. Miller ’08 says, the organization also encourages him to expand his social horizons beyond just black men and the black community. “BMF is a springboard and a place to start in navigation through Harvard,” Miller says...
Dean would say: the trouble with our party is that we didn’t stand up for what we believe. We didn’t understand—as George Bush’s people did—that elections are about exciting your base and that we wasted our time appealing to swing voters. We should have used the Internet and technology more effectively to raise money. We gave up on too many states and focused only on the 18 battlegrounds. And we need to spend the time, between elections, building the state parties, and investing...
...arguments—particularly the last two—are correct. But many are plainly wrong, unsupported by the facts and the evidence. Kerry and his supporters actually spent more money than the Republicans. And for the thousandth time, Bush’s message appealed both to his ideological base and to swing voters like married women and white Catholics. There is simply no way to win 50 million votes with hard-core Democrats or Republicans alone. The McGovernite fantasy that a sharply social democrat/pacifist message will rouse the 49 percent of Americans that don’t vote will...
When Harvard coach Joe Walsh brought in his closer—third baseman Steffan Wilson—to nail down the win in the seventh inning, he called in freshman centerfielder Matt Vance to play third base...
...errant attempt by Mann to pick off Derrick Durepo from first base allowed Durepo to advance to third, and later, to score on a base hit by Twomley; the tying run was on first. But when Twomley attempted to take second, Mann gunned him out with a perfect strike...