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...last ditch effort with 8:03 minutes remaining and down 7-12, epitomizing the team’s never-say-die attitude.“The key to our team is hustle,” Widbin said. “We’re a blue collar team.”But the lopsided third period ended up haunting the Crimson, and an edge in groundballs and faceoffs for the Quakers led to an advantage in possession that tipped the scales in Penn’s favor.“We need to stay hungry through all points...
...served as dean for the last 22 years. “At that point it made Harvard seem intriguing and made me more determined to apply.”Fitzsimmons, who is a graduate of Archbishop Williams, a Catholic high school, grew up in the blue-collar Boston suburb of Weymouth, where much of the community still saw Harvard as a place that was hostile to anyone who wasn’t wealthy.“It was seen as alien, really not for us,” he said.But when he visited, Fitzsimmons said he was struck...
...sure, the Mafia still runs Sicily. But like the IRA it is an anodyne force. It is moving into white-collar crime - where the real money is and the sentences are lighter...
There's a flip side to this as well--the argument that Obama is dangerously weak among key Democratic and swing constituencies. The Clinton campaign has been raising questions about Obama's ability to win white blue-collar voters in states like Ohio and Pennsylvania and Hispanics in places like New Mexico and Colorado--all swing states that will most likely decide the election...
...Many pundits point to Obama's loss in Ohio, 45% to Clinton's 55%, as a bad omen for his chances in Pennsylvania. Both states have large white, blue-collar populations, and Ohio, at least, was an open primary. Clinton's economic-themed campaign resonates in the Rust Belt, especially under the shadow of a possible recession (though the big cities in Pennsylvania have transformed their economies from their industrial past more effectively than Ohio's). More than half - 57% - of Democratic Pennsylvania voters are over the age of 45, a strong demographic for Clinton...