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...hardly dub Clinton an invertebrate while he himself wiggles between principles. In a Wall Street Journal essay, Gingrich booster and political augurist Arianna Huffington called Clinton a "counterfeit" and Dole a "composite--a collage of positions determined by polling data and focus groups," and predicted that in a matchup, the counterfeit would win. The idea of that choice helps explain why voters tired of gamey party politics ache for the only candidate who has yet to say whether he belongs to a party...
...only do Zimmerman and the fourth-seeded Crimson (11-10) face the one team that has dominated them in past years, tonight's matchup pits the freshman against his best friend and formal high school teammate, Kevin O'Sullivan. O'Sullivan--recruited by Brown last year--is a starting driver for the Bears, who enter the tournament as the fifth seed...
Until the younger Zimmerman's emergence on the scene, Harvard had not defeated Brown for four years. In September, Zimmerman helped to end that dismal streak as Harvard defeated Brown in the first matchup of the season between the Ancient Eight rivals...
...easing commercial activity restrictions on 5 million acres. Fourteen energy companies worked to win exclusion of a key part of this acreage, a 100-mile-long strip of remote terrain in northwestern Montana, known as the Rocky Mountain Front, that could allow them to stake drilling claims. "The matchup was exact. His big campaign contributors got precisely the acreage that they wanted,'' insists John Gatchell, conservation director of the Montana Wilderness Association. But Burns' eagerness to return federal land to state authority has also run afoul of sportsmen in his own state and party who support preservation of federal lands...
Even though the Yale game will no doubt be psychologically taxing, the team does not expect emotional fatigue will play a role in either matchup. However, the squad is unsure what to expect physically, having never played back to back weekend games...