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...otherwise consistently made the most of limited resources. Linden’s score recognized the fact that the singers’ voices, though strong, were not spectacular, and it accordingly leaned heavily on warm harmonies and stayed away from melodic bravado. Likewise, many jokes flopped on the first go-round, but took off when they reappeared a few minutes later, as though the cast was able to make a scene funny by sheer determination...
...against other teams,” Shuman said. “You are what you shoot. We didn’t shoot our potential. I would argue that happened almost all year long and was exemplified by today.” Shuman led the competition during the first two rounds on Saturday, only to finish in fourth place yesterday. The freshman ended up two strokes behind the individual champion, Columbia’s Chris Condello. Shuman said he was “knee deep in divets” during the third round, which he finished seven strokes over par. Freshman...
...Socialists, haunted by the trauma of 2002, who would most like to tattoo that phrase onto the conscience of left-wing voters. In the first that year, enough voters backed far-left and ecologist candidates on the assumption that they would have a second-round opportunity to ensure that Socialist Lionel Jospin beat out incumbent President Jacques Chirac, to cost the Socialists a place in the second round: Instead, Chirac faced the far-right National Front's Jean-Marie Le Pen in the run-off, putting many voters for whom Jospin had not been sufficiently left-wing into the incongruous...
...explicitly invokes the prospect of a repeat of her party's ignoble 2002 debacle. But her partner, Socialist Party Secretary Francois Hollande, put it bluntly a few days ago: "If the left is to be position to rule the country, people have to vote for Royal in the first round...
...Bayrou has a potent vote utile argument of his own: Polls regularly show that he would have a better chance than Royal would have of beating Sarkozy in the head-to-head second round on May 6. His appeal has prompted several former Socialist ministers to break rank and urge their party to promise to govern in coalition with the centrists, prompting outrage from party leaders. But if Royal does make it into the second round, their tune could quickly change...