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...limitations. Obama knows he is inexperienced, and he knows that every wave eventually crashes--and that he'll need a second, more substantive act when, after his umpteenth visits to Iowa and New Hampshire, he is no longer a novelty. He has never experienced a tight, tooth-and-claw political marathon where even the tiniest of decisions, the smallest of slips, can have profound consequences. And he knows that Clinton has. The junior Senator from New York has spent much of her career trying to stay sane in the midst of a political tornado. And now, having finally achieved...
...survived that search and who did not, and why. As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexorably forward for us with its shadowy claw...
...bono hours analyzing the record and conducting interviews with witnesses, experts and former jurors. In the process, they found numerous inconsistencies between the confessions, essentially the only hard evidence offered in the trials, and the crime scene evidence. For example, Tice had confessed that six men had used a claw and hammer to break open the door to Moore-Bosko's apartment, but police found no signs of forced entry or struggle. Deborah Boardman, a lawyer from the high-powered Washington, D.C., law firm Hogan and Hartson who worked on the case, hopes the judge's decision will confirm...
...quarter. Then, while up 28-24 in the final frame, Harvard called on wideout Chris Sanders to throw a pass as part of a trick reverse. Instead, he lofted the ball into the hands of Princeton’s Luke Steckel, giving the Tigers the life they needed to claw back.“We had set it up early with the reverse, and they didn’t cover,” Murphy said. “They covered it the second time around.”Still, despite the turnovers on special teams at especially inopportune moments...
Thrust into an environment that demanded we claw toward an exalted few, genuine interest was a major casualty. With name tags and routine attempts at small talk, we were asked questions about where we were from...