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Obama will also be running against the best political strategist in the Democratic Party. Bill Clinton will be able to help his wife in three crucial areas: the framing of issues, timing the dramatic arc of the campaign and damage control. Clinton is the world's best focus group: he has an innate sense of what average folks think is important and how to explain complicated things in the most accessible way. He also understands the weird chronology of presidential politics, the patience needed to last through interminable house parties and candidate forums, the fierce compression of time that will...
...another with Vietnam in 1979. For years, it supported communist movements dedicated to undermining governments in nations such as Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia. Yet today China's relations with its neighbors are nothing but sweetness and light, often at the expense of the U.S. Absorbed by the arc of crisis spreading from the Middle East, the U.S. is simply less visible in Southeast Asia than it once was, and China is stepping into the vacuum...
...court.”Despite Hallion’s second-half heroics, the Ivy champions would not go down quietly. Dartmouth senior Ashley Taylor (22 points), named the League Player of the Week in each of the past two weeks, hit a gutsy three-pointer from far beyond the arc with 37.4 seconds remaining to cut the Crimson lead to two. After two Hallion free throws, Koren Schram hit another three-ball to pull the Big Green within one. But with only ten seconds left, Dartmouth had no choice but to send Hallion back to the charity stripe, where...
...many of which came from the free throw line, where he was 15-of-19. He grabbed a game-high 15 rebounds and blocked four shots.Cusworth also had a chance to win the game at the end of regulation, but his well-guarded, fallaway jumper from just inside the arc at the top of the key bounced off the back rim as the buzzer sounded.The big man’s success did not rub off on the starting backcourt of Housman and Goffredo. Housman was Harvard’s second-leading scorer with 14 points, but made only...
...three point lead.The Crimson tied the game on captain Jim Goffredo’s long three-pointer, but Pattman was not going to be turned away from victory. The teams traded baskets on consecutive possessions to begin overtime before Pattman got the ball beyond the three-point arc, took several dribbles and pulled up, drilling the trey to put Dartmouth up for good, 71-68.“I think Leon shows why he was rookie of the year his freshman year, and I think what he brings is a great sense of confidence, and knowing that when...