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Toward the end, the exhausted Leahy wanted to coast, pleading he didn't need to make yet another trip to a small town he had already been to half a dozen times. "Why am I dragging myself down there again?" Leahy protested. "I'm going to win anyway." Cahill cut him off: "Do you want to win, or do you want to win big?" He trounced Snelling on Election Day by 29 points. Four years later, Cahill engineered an equally unlikely landslide for Rhode Island's eccentric Claiborne Pell...
...protect the U.S. embassy in Port-au-Prince, there was no immediate agreement on sending international troops, either as peacekeepers or to help Aristide out of the country. Over the weekend, some 2,200 additional Marines prepared to board naval vessels, poised to cruise just off Haiti's coast this week. Meanwhile, more than 500 Haitians fleeing to the U.S. on boats were intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard, which sent them home without even granting interviews to determine if they merited asylum...
...game like this is a real wake-up call,” McKiernan said. “Playing like this won’t work in the playoffs. We know we can play with the best teams on the East Coast, but we also know we have work...
...John F. Kerry, D-Mass. is poised for the Democratic presidential nomination thanks to resounding victories from coast to coast in yesterday’s Super Tuesday primaries, including a 50-plus point victory in Massachusetts...
...heavy hitters--Plutarch, the Bible, The Pilgrim's Progress--but one of his choices sticks out for its total obscurity: James Riley's An Authentic Narrative of the Loss of the American Brig Commerce, a memoir by a luckless sea captain who was shipwrecked on the Saharan coast of Africa, where unspeakably horrible things happened to him. Dean King, the author of a biography of Patrick O'Brian (of Master and Commander fame), stumbled on a copy of Riley's memoir and decided to produce a thoroughly researched, authoritative account of Riley's disaster...