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A dynasty was brewing.After hoisting the Ivy League trophy last season, entering the NCAAs for the first time in six years, and turning heads across the nation with its solid play, the Harvard men’s soccer team was poised to position itself amongst the elite of college soccer...

Author: By Mauricio A. Cruz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Achieves National Rank, Falters in Ivy League Play | 6/2/2008 | See Source »

These days, professing paternal joy in his six kids, Tyson says, "I have to live on the top of the world or the bottom of the ocean, but I don't know how to live in the middle of life." Now twice the age he was when he became champ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cannes Gets Real | 5/17/2008 | See Source »

Ickes isn't fazed by those who accuse him of damaging the party by trying to wrest the nomination away from the first viable African-American contender. "Everyone says, 'You can't take this away from a strong black candidate,'" Ickes says. "Well, how about the first woman candidate of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Superdelegate Hunter | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

It has not gone unnoticed that Ickes, after a generation of maneuvering behind the scenes for insurgent candidates, is working for the Establishment contender this time, in exactly the kind of stodgy corporate campaign he once took a special pleasure in trying to destroy. But as Obama surged and Clinton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Superdelegate Hunter | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

The Clinton team also notes that the superdelegates were established in the 1980s, in the wake of successive electoral debacles, to assure that the party nominated its strongest general-election contender. If Clinton performs well in such upcoming primaries as West Virginia and Kentucky, her team argues, that will increase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tell Me How This Ends? | 4/24/2008 | See Source »

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