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...short, Ancient Eight basketball is slowly dying. Harvard coach Frank Sullivan, who in his 16th season at the school is currently the longest tenured coach in the Ivy League and the longest tenured in the Crimson’s history, has stated that the talent base of the league in general is no longer what it was, and Ivy teams have been beaten soundly in their recent forays into the NCAA tournament. This lessening in overall talent could conceivably lead to a lessening in the gap between the top and bottom teams, but that parity has to this point...
...about New Hampshire,” where one of the first primary elections takes place, “they’re very aware that we are less than an hour away,” Helgen said of the allure of speaking in Cambridge, where there is a fertile base of potential campaign workers. “He’s a really smart guy,” Piper said of Dodd. “Because he’s obscure, this type of forum was key for him because he can he can really shine and convince people that...
...terrific in the role--all-knowing, never overtly expressing a feeling. Indeed, so is everyone else in this intricate, understated but ultimately devastating account of how secrets, when they are left to fester, can become an illness, dangerous to those who keep them, more so to nations that base their policies on them...
Such overtures might make inroads in a skeptical Republican base, but these shifts make some of his longtime allies worry. "A profile in courage can become a profile in unrestrained ambition," says former Reagan White House chief of staff Ken Duberstein, who was one of the few G.O.P. establishment figures to support McCain's 2000 presidential campaign. "He has to remember who his friends are and not spend his integrity on one-night stands with those who will never fully trust...
Sources familiar with AARP say the group will for the first time acknowledge that "third rail" political issues like raising the retirement age, indexing Social Security benefits for age and increasing the taxable wage base need to be openly debated. And Novelli says AARP won't lobby just for its powerful constituency, the 37 million citizens over 50 who belong to his organization. "We have to be fair to all generations, and all options should be on the table," he says. "But AARP is going to be vocal and strong...