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...laden first period.“She’s good,” Stone said. “She got to see a lot of pucks, which is a testament to her defense. Any time that something like that happens the puck is going to look like a beach ball.”Zilis notched 30 saves on the evening.Harvard has now won eight games in a row, a streak that dates back to Dec. 14, when the squad suffered its only loss of the season to No. 2 New Hampshire. The Crimson remains the only team...
...That same day Donovan, star of the F/X show Damages, told a crowd of 300 canvassers across town in Venice Beach about how nervous he was making his first phone calls for Obama. "I mean I've done Broadway with Judi Dench, but this was more nerve-wracking, I was calling in to people's homes," said Donovan, who spent much of last week with Obama in South Carolina and now heads to Minneapolis...
...special election bodes well for Obama, who holds a commanding lead in polls of likely California black voters, who account for just around 10% of the total Democratic electorate. Her story even has shades of Obama in it. In the space of a year she went from the Long Beach City Council to the State Assembly to the U.S. Congress. The child of a white mother and black father, Richardson, 45, won the district's special election with 67% of the vote after edging past State Senator Jenny Oropeza, a Latina, in the primary. Political observers watched the race closely...
...That slight level of curiosity is encouraging for Obama. But there's no denying that the Illinois Senator has his work cut out for him in trying to win over the California Latino community in places like Long Beach, home of the 37th Congressional District, where Latinos make up 43% of the population. Not only does the former First Lady have built-in name recognition, she represents an era of prosperity that many of these women would like to see returned. "Not to mention, I like to elect the first woman President," Salazar, a retired dental assistant, said with...
...many of those have doubtless cast their votes before Obama gained new momentum after winning in South Carolina. No wonder that the Clinton campaign, trying to take advantage of her name recognition, has focused its efforts on early voting. And it worked: Back at the Chavez Center in Long Beach, many of the elderly Latinas, including Salazar, have already voted for Clinton by mailing in absentee ballets. Salazar said she might well have voted for Obama if she had waited until Election...