Word: colorado
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...right to house the world's most advanced subatomic particle accelerator, a $4.4 billion project that will bring thousands of jobs and considerable prestige to the state that wins. Last week a joint committee of 21 scientists winnowed down the original 25 contestants to eight finalists: Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, Tennessee and Texas...
...there was the former Colorado Senator, coatless in Kennedyesque fashion, flanked by his long-enduring wife Lee, daring to do the unthinkable. "Sometimes the best thing to do is what you feel you must do," Hart unrepentantly declared, reading from his handwritten speech. "I believe I represent a brand of leadership that draws its strength from its independence, that's experienced in politics but that is not purely political. I have a sense of new direction and a set of new ideas that our country needs that no one else represents. And I intend to resume my presidential campaign...
...left the race in May, he told us that the campaign was not about a candidate, it was a cause," recalled David Dreyer, Hart's former national-policy director. "I don't know of anything that suggests he is going to serve the cause by getting back in." Former Colorado Governor Richard Lamm, an old ally of Hart's, likened him to the "bastard cousin who shows up at the family reunion." Lamm added, "The Democratic Party will forgive past indiscretions, but I don't think the party will forgive someone solely interested in playing the role of spoiler...
...return was daring political theater, but it enraged party leaders, threw the race into chaos and vaulted the former Colorado Senator to the head of the presidential pack in a TIME poll. Can he survive without money, organization or further apology? -- Interviews with both the candidate and his long- enduring wife Lee reveal the tears behind the public smiles. See NATION...
Minnesota-Duluth started the season by losing its first four games. But the underdog Bulldogs have turned it around and will probably enter the tourney with a winning record, since they host WCHA cellardweller Colorado College this weekend...