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...Hubert Humphrey, in 1968, was the last Democrat to win his party's nomination without winning the most votes in the primaries. Most politicians tend to be cautious, straitlaced people. Confronted by the raging television torrent, by the strange new theatrics of public performance, which makes every last word or handshake a potentially career-threatening experience, they sought creative help to navigate the waters. And so, the pollster-consultant industrial complex was born. By 1976, the process had been turned upside down. A politician most Americans had never heard of-Governor Jimmy Carter of Georgia-won the Democratic nomination...
...border," says Carleton University trade-policy expert Michael Hart, who argues that the stakes are too high for the PM to wait for a comfortable majority at home. Adds Hart: "The future prosperity of Canada depends on the continued health of the North American economy." Even for the shrewdly cautious pols on Harper's team, that ought to carry weight...
...life.And then came the “turning point,” according to Donato. Harvard’s struggles playing with the lead were well documented in the season’s early goings, when multi-goal leads were whittled down and the Crimson resorted to a cautious game. But Saturday night, with its lead down to one, the Crimson went for it. Fraser was replaced by Murphy on a faceoff in the Cornell zone, and though the latter couldn’t get his stick to the ice, he kicked the puck forward to Fraser, who slipped...
...said the committee will most likely recommend uniform modifications to allow for further identification for employees. David R. Bach ’07, who alerted police to the convicted rapist in Mather, said he supports a more stringent identification policy. For Bach, who said he has been slightly more cautious since the October incident, further identification would allow students to both feel safe and not “make rash assumptions and accuse them [authorized workers] of anything.” —Staff writer Benjamin L. Weintraub can be reached at bweintr@fas.harvard.edu...
...Association predicts that 10 million Chinese could be skiing by then, meaning one out of every seven skiers worldwide could be living in China. "Everyone overseas skis, so why can't we?" asks schoolteacher Hang Mei, whose first-time snowplow is so cautious that she slows to a complete halt on the slope. "China is developing very fast, and there isn't anything...