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...John McCain was scheduled to glad-hand with Corker on Friday, former President Bill Clinton stumped for Ford on his home turf in Memphis Wednesday. At the same time, VoteVets Action Fund, organized by veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, prepared to spend $480,000 to blitz Tennessee with a television ad critical of U.S. policy in Iraq and, by inference, of Republicans like Corker...
...projects as they arise. Meanwhile, the College should look for novel ways of fundraising in order to protect these sorts of programs. We believe, for example, that the College should continue raising money for student initiatives through alumni. Finally, it may be wise for FAS to slow its hiring blitz. The Faculty’s original goal, set in 2000, was to have about 700 members by 2010. It surpassed that goal several years early. While we have supported faculty growth in the past on the grounds that it would improve teaching and student-faculty contact, we were unaware until...
...told Tim Murphy and the rest of the Harvard football family last spring that they’d soon be the subject of a national media blitz digging deep into the heart of the program and highlighting some of its marquee players, they would have been ecstatic. After all, Murphy had spent the past 12 years resurrecting a struggling program and turning it into the envy of the rest of the country. Crimson football was what college athletics was supposed to be—in between winning games on Saturdays players were just normal students going to class and contributing...
...D.N.C. fund-raising luncheon in Washington last week that the G.O.P. "is pouring tens of millions of dollars into races, and we're not matching that." House Republican officials contend that many of their Democratic challengers are so little known that they could be buried in an ad blitz. "You hit them, and they fold like a house of cards," a strategist said...
...John F. Kerry in 2004. Kerry’s slim three percent margin of victory in New Hampshire, however, also testifies to the dedicated efforts of the HRC, which sent busloads of volunteers every weekend to campaign in support of President Bush, culminating in a three-day campaign blitz during the last 72 hours before election...