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...Obama rolled out his familiar themes in answering Allen's question. This time last year, he said, no one thought that a black guy named Barack Obama was going to beat the best Democratic brand name, the Clintons. "The problem," he said, "is once you're a front-runner, it's the obligation of the candidates who are behind to try and whack you over the head." He acknowledged the furor over his former pastor's comments and his own San Francisco statements, but he said, there's something about his campaign "that's right, that's true." More pointedly...
...Cross defeated her the only time the two dueled.“It was a long time ago, and I think I had the advantage of being young and having nothing to lose,” Cross says. “I think that I have the potential to beat her again, but it would definitely take everything in my arsenal to pull it out.” To beat one of the Italian women, Cross must duel flawlessly while utilizing her greatest strength, which according to her coach and teammates is her competitive spirit and intensity...
...first at the close of the first day of competition.And it all turned around when Harvard upset the favored Yale team, giving the squad the confidence it needed to succeed in the remainder of the weekend’s races.“The turning moment was when we beat Yale, a pretty good team, on Saturday,” senior Elyse Dolbec said. “We won the rest of our races [on Saturday] and found ourselves in a qualifying position and thought, ‘Hey, we can do this...
...race—everyone got off the line pretty quickly, so we knew it would be a tight race. Rallying for the second race, Radcliffe trounced the MIT boat by a 25.5-second margin. Finishing up the day, the Black and White’s novice four beat two MIT boats. Radcliffe finished with a time of 8:10 and MIT A finished in 8:14. MIT B followed 10 seconds behind. Showing dedication to causes beyond rowing and solidarity with the Radcliffe heavyweight crew, the team donned pink shirts during races and helped raise over 1000 dollars...
Though their regimes may be thuggish, these men are not thugs themselves. They are intellectuals and, as firm believers that their various opponents are merely puppets of the same imperial enemy they have always faced, it is intellectually crucial that they beat their former colonial masters at their own game. Western democracy, as they see it, is hollow. Western governments that were democratically elected at home pursued autocratic colonialism abroad. Even after the end of the age of imperialism, neo-imperialists funneled support to compliant dictators around the world, and relentlessly attempted to fix the rules of the global economy...