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...Democrats did it, and they were rewarded. The bounce was theirs, the biggest in 50 years. But the Candidate has been a front runner before, and he fully expects to be playing catch-up again. So he smiled and went along and shared in the wonder -- but the Candidate is a realist and he knows it. So he said, quietly and almost to himself, "It won't be easy. Bush is wrong about most things, but he was right when he said this is a weird year...
Meanwhile the frontrunners concentrated their fire on each other. Clinton derided George Bush's environmental record as "reactive, rudderless and expedient" and called on the President to attend a global-environment summit in Rio de Janeiro in June. Bush, who has been forced to play catch-up on foreign policy and education, had been hoping to get ahead of his rival by focusing on trade matters. But Clinton's "theme of the week" attack trumped Bush's own effort, and the President hurriedly launched a counterattack on Clinton's environmental record. "This man," said Bush spokesman Marlin Fitzwater, "does know...
Harvard (16-9 overall, 4-0 Ivy) started out slowly in both games, forcing it to play catch-up most of the afternoon. All of Stonehill's runs came in the first inning of each contest...
...ended up playing catch-up all semester long," she says...
That sounds like an easy enough formula: don't play catch-up football and you won't lose...