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Republicans - John McCain took all 52 delegates in the winner-take-all contest in the state primary...
...adding, “We missed the net far too often, passed up shots in shooting areas early, we allowed them to dictate the first ten minutes of the game.” Harvard seemed especially punchless on special teams, which proved particularly important in a penalty-filled contest. Afforded nine power-play opportunities, the Crimson was able to break through on only one. “Our power play didn’t execute well enough,” Donato said. “Certainly early in the game we had plenty of chances and didn?...
...Fairly or unfairly, however, race has been injected into the Clinton-Obama contest in the past few weeks. Until the Nevada caucuses and South Carolina primary, Obama, who is half-white, half-black, pretty much transcended race, winning Iowa, which is 95% white, and placing a close second in New Hampshire, which is 96% white. But in subsequent weeks both campaigns traded charges of race baiting. Obama accused Clinton of politicizing Nevada's Latino vote and Clinton accused Obama of using her and her husband's remarks on civil rights out of context with black voters. Whatever the intentions...
...that they can take on a life of their own. "Some CLCs are street gangs," says the U.S official in Iraq, "somebody crosses into somebody else's territory, he's going to get shot." Already, there are cases of these neighborhood watch groups turning on each other in a contest for influence and territory. Diyala PRT leader Jones says that CLCs have helped calm the restive provincial capital Baquba in the short term. No easy task, as the city was the headquarters of al-Qaeda in Iraq as recently as last year. "I know in Baquba it has helped...
Though just one of the 25 Super Tuesday states, Georgia Democrats are likely to be particularly conflicted by their choices on that primary day. The state is the historic heart of the civil rights movement and veterans of that struggle are finding themselves deeply divided over the contest between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama - a division complicated by the Illinois Senator's appeal among younger African Americans...