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Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of former North Carolina senator and presidential aspirant John Edwards, will serve as a visiting fellow at the Institute of Politics this spring, institute officials announced today...
...odds that North Carolina, UCLA, Kansas, and Memphis—the four top-ranked teams in the country—would all make it to the championship in San Antonio were fairly slim. Basketball Prospectus, which uses past performance to generate probabilities of future outcomes, estimated the chance of what they termed the “Doomsday Scenario” at 3.5% (smaller, incidentally, than the probability that a number one seed would be upset in the first round). However, that still made it the single most likely of the 65,536 possible combinations of Final Four teams...
...more interested in saving money by replacing employees with machines than in making things more efficient for consumers. Anything that makes life simpler and easier is fine, but I don't like the idea of doing the work of employees without being paid. Mary Lou Bryden, Wilmington, North Carolina...
Indeed, the scenario for a Clinton comeback remains remote. Even if she decisively wins Pennsylvania's April 22 primary and rides that momentum to upset Obama in both Indiana and North Carolina on May 6, she would probably still trail him in the delegate count. The news that neither Michigan nor Florida will hold do-over contests was another blow to the Clinton effort...
...ambush the committee," objected South Carolina Democrat Fritz Hollings at the hearing, accusing McCain of trying to squeeze through the amendment "in the dark of night." Hollings was also upset that McCain's proposal would upend a rulemaking process...