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Sitting curled up on my bed, eyes bloodshot and stomach growling, I steadily punch the keys on my laptop in order to make the next fellowship deadline. And then it hits me. I am back in my senior year of high school. The self-marketing blitz, the standardized tests, the clever essays, they all come rushing back to me. It seems like ages ago when we were all declaring to the world (or at least to our favorite colleges) that we were worthy, that all those Advanced Placements courses should count for something...
...Second District race, Maloney will try again to unseat three-term Republican Gary Franks, who beat him in 1994 by only 6%. He has had help from the AFL-CIO, which, in its crusade against anti-labor Republicans, sent an organizer to the Fifth to head a media blitz against the incumbent. In his working-class district, Maloney will concentrate on labor issues: he opposes limiting overtime, and champions quality health insurance and public education...
From the opening kick, the Crimson (13-1, 5-0 Ivy) began an all-out blitz on the Friar net. Providence goalie Sheila Gibbons made the first of her four saves less than three minutes into the contest, and Harvard had two corners in the first five minutes...
...stretches from the Phoenix suburbs north to the Utah border. Representative J.D. Hayworth, a former college football player and sportscaster, is locked in a tight race with Steve Owens, a former aide to then Senator Al Gore. The AFL-CIO has spent nearly $2 million on a television advertising blitz and organizing a grassroots campaign against Hayworth, who voted against a minimum wage increase, and backs the GOP positions on Medicare and student loans. "This is the showcase race for the AFL-CIO," reports TIME's Richard Woodbury. "They have some 140 operatives in the district helping with phone banks...
Kerry campaign officials are massaging the state's liberal network in its post-Labor Day blitz, while Weld is using frequent media splashes to lure independent and moderate voters across party lines...