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...Staff writer Aditi Balakrishna can be reached at balakris@fas.harvard.edu.—Staff writer Christian B. Flow can be reached at cflow@fas.harvard.edu...
...dictate play with my serve.”Harvard’s other A-singles entry, Nguyen, won his opening-round match easily before losing to Columbia’s Wong in three sets 7-5, 3-6, 6-0.Junior Michael Kalfayan made it to the semifinals of the B-singles draw, playing a tenacious back-court game that allowed him to power past four-year Yale starter Rory Green 6-4, 6-4 in the quarterfinals.Freshman Aba Omodele-Lucien won his first match in the B-draw 6-4, 6-2 before falling to the eventual runner-up. Fellow freshman...
...From here on out, Rule 13-B is what distinguishes the Democratic race from its Republican counterpart. The G.O.P. primaries are by and large winner-take-all affairs, expressly designed to winnow the field and produce a healthy front-runner and eliminate chaos. But in the Democratic contest, winnowing isn't part of the design; something closer to chaos is. Racking up delegates creates powerful leverage even for a second-place finisher. It gives an also-ran powerful cards to play at the convention for speaking rights, for rules changes - even a place on the ticket. Jackson, working without Rule...
...while, yes, next week's 22-state contest could produce a clear front-runner and the momentum needed to lock up the nomination quickly, it is much more likely, thanks to Rule 13-B, that the fight will go on to all the other states. "If someone gets ahead, this whole thing takes care of itself," says a Clinton delegate hunter put it, "but if you have a lengthy and contested fight, securing the nomination becomes a real challenge...
...candidate. These boiler-room operations generate regular telephone calls from the candidates seeking support and pressure from donors to get behind one candidate or another, as well as discussion of possible jobs in a future Administration. The party created super-delegates after the 1980 election before Rule 13-B to prevent just the sort of confusion that could now unfold in the Democratic race...