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...characteristically, Rove and his untimid President want to play for all the marbles. They have increased Republican Party registrations, especially in the South and key battleground states, and boast of "hiving off" chunks of Democrats into their camp. What Rove is looking for is something Bush did not get in the last election: a mandate. They are already laying plans for the ambitious things they want to do in a second term--Social Security overhaul, tax reform, Medicare restructuring and even more tax cuts...
...post--9/11 nation, and the most seasoned, Dick Gephardt, appeared too scarred by his long service and too bound to the ways of Capitol Hill for Democrats desperate for a win. As for the latest entry, retired General Wesley Clark, his clumsy first weeks have proved his boast that he's not a politician and have shown that military discipline doesn't always apply to other endeavors. "The people that were supposed to break out just never did," says Steve Jarding, an adviser on Florida Senator Bob Graham's failed campaign. "It just seems like everyone has been stuck...
...Democratic campaigns can boast matching funds from megarich financier George Soros, feisty speeches by Al Gore and a make-your-own-campaign-commercial contest conceived by pop star Moby. These are the trophies of MoveOn.org an activist website with just seven staff members and no office. What it does have is an e-mail list with 1.8 million members, who have little more in common than anger and a tilt to the left...
...fact that the two freshmen haven’t yet played at the collegiate level doesn’t mean they don’t bring loads of experience to Harvard. Both boast impressive resumes on the junior circuit. Duboc played on the 2003 U.S. junior team and competed in the World Junior Championships in Egypt during the summer...
Outside of the Ivy League, other top institutions boast even more heterogeneous student bodies by income. At the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), 35 percent of students receive Pell Grants, according to the Century Foundation study. Sixteen percent of Amherst College’s student body receives Pell grants. And just down the river at MIT, 12 percent of students receive the federal grants...