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Both sides found the net twice in the third period, as the Crimson clung to a 6-5 lead heading into the final quarter...
...getting confirmed as Secretary of Homeland Security, former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik and his advisers had reckoned they could handle the issue of Kerik's reputation for occasional lapses of judgment in personal matters. Or that the smell of some conflict-of-interest issues still clung to him. "Everything seemed pretty normal, at least by Washington or New York standards," his mentor and boss, former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani, told TIME. "It is never pleasant. You deal with it." But they hadn't counted on the nanny. Kerik's disclosure, a week after President George...
...thanks to Grumet-Morris, the large Maine monkey that had clung to his and the Crimson’s collective back for three years was unceremoniously dumped...
Intuitively, we, the established electorate, hesitate to grant voting rights to toddling babes and pubescent middle-schoolers, just as those with the vote have always looked down on those without. During the early twentieth century crisis concerning women’s suffrage, many skeptics clung to the beliefs expressed by Episcopal Reverend John Williams, who wrote that “God meant for women to reign over home, and most good women reject politics because woman suffrage will destroy society.” Eighty-five years after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, our society seems to have escaped...
...ride back, which was even more packed than the morning bus, the anticipation that had been building up throughout the day approached its peak. The hushed group clung to the radio commentators’ every word, breaking into loud cheers whenever they heard evidence that the election would produce a Kerry...