Word: pro
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...first-and-10 at the Brown 43-yard line, Harvard came out in a pro set and handed the ball to sophomore Sean Meeker on a reverse. Meeker got some great blocking by Rose and Cremarosa at the point of attack, and Meeker was patient and waited for his teammates to set up their blocks downfield. Meeker evaded tacklers and outran the rest of the Brown defense for a 43-yard touchdown...
...eight-game pro set, Lee came up big. Three times, Jagdale was serving for the game on Lee's side. Three times, Lee's huge returns set up easy points for the Crimson. Eventually, the Harvard pair was able to break back and tie the match...
...just as Gore is eager to attack Bush for his support of a Texas law to allow concealed weapons, so too will Carnahan zing Ashcroft for his backing of a similar state referendum that failed. For Ashcroft's part, his ads, like Bush's, don't mention his pro-life views or the size of his tax cuts. Instead they present him as a champion of Social Security...
...wearing Gore should have an advantage with them, but his anticorporate message has turned some of them off. And since many of them use their web browsers to buy and sell stock, they like Bush's idea of investing some of their payroll taxes in the markets. They're pro-choice and anti-regulation. In the end, they'll vote for the candidate they deem less likely to screw up the economy...
...campaign year, environmentalist groups have dogged the Gore campaign over the fate of the U'wa, an 5,00-strong indigenous Colombian tribe who've threatened to commit mass suicide if Occidental goes ahead with a plan to drill oil on land they hold sacred. Just last week pro-U'wa hecklers disrupted a University of Missouri speech by Karenna Gore-Schiff, and a second group were arrested trying to enter a Gore campaign office in Washington state. Of course, these protests are mostly an opportunistic effort by the tribe's supporters to take advantage of the election-year vulnerability...