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...Flaherty will need to work very quickly to consolidate support among people who voted for Yoon, and to a lesser extent, McCrea,” DiCara said, adding that Flaherty and the Mayor are “culturally very similar” and may appeal to the same voters. DiCara noted that running against an incumbent in Boston is extremely difficult in any scenario, and said that the last time a Boston mayoral incumbent lost...
...Although the uniqueness of their experiences gives interest and profundity to their memoirs, paradoxically, many of the Harvard memoirists’ stories actually have universal appeal...
...just in its simplicity this is a wonderful idea." Because every adult thinks, "Well, yeah, I can do that." You find out pretty quickly that you can't. It's not just a game of chance. It rewards knowledge and it makes kids look good. Part of the appeal of it for me - and I see it in fan mail - is all these letters from teachers saying, "You've made it cool to be smart again. Thank you." (See the top 10 T.V. Dads...
...Jesse Owens sprinting to glory in defiance of Hiter’s Nazi regime. An amateur ragtag United States hockey team dismantling a polished Soviet machine with a miracle. Rocky Balboa.These are the tales that capture the American sports fan’s imagination most vividly, and yet their appeal lies in their scarcity. David rarely beats Goliath.This was made all too clear in the Harvard football team’s 27-20 loss to Holy Cross on Saturday in Worcester, Mass. On one side, there was junior Collier Winters, the Crimson’s new starting signal caller...
...ruling by boosting funds for indigent counsel. Despite that, studies showed that death-row inmates were still often badly served by appellate counsel. "Since 2004, 2005, there has been documented some horrible lawyering," says Andrea Marsh, executive director of Texas Fair Defense Project. In one case, a habeas appeal was filed by an attorney who simply cut and pasted an old appeal and changed the defendant's name, leaving the facts of the old case in place, Marsh says...