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Only two areas can explain such a discrepancy: preparation and play calling. Both reflect upon the coaching staff, and a closer examination of recent defeats will highlight Harvard's deficiency in each area...
...ballot, and Carnahan's Democratic successor as Governor said he would appoint Carnahan's wife Jean, 66, to the Senate seat if her late husband won. "My husband's journey was cut short," she said last week. "And for reasons we don't understand, the mantle has now fallen upon us." Some Republicans grumbled about her right to assume that mantle, but Ashcroft, gracious in defeat, said, "Missouri is a compassionate state, and I think, in a very special way, they have demonstrated their compassion...
COUNTRIES WITH THE MOST FAITH IN OUR ELECTORAL SYSTEM Germany, England and France, where top officials rushed to congratulate George W. Bush upon premature news that he had won the election...
...delicately balanced ambivalence. We end by looking at a split screen, like one of those old campaign buttons that shows you one image (Gore) if you look at it from one angle and a different image (Bush) if you tilt it slightly. I seem to see Clinton enter smilingly upon the chaotic scene: "Say, if y'all can't make up your minds, why don't we just...I mean, if it ain't broke...
...Once upon a time in a barbaric kingdom, a young man attempted to win the love of the king's daughter - a grave offense. The king decreed that, as punishment, the young man must stand in a great arena facing two doors...