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...Campaign Comeback How can Hillary Clinton look at herself in the mirror after trying to cajole people like Howard Dean to include Michigan's and Florida's delegate votes [March 17]? The Democratic primaries have turned into a contest to see who can manipulate the system to gain advantage - and both candidates have become political chameleons. We want to see their true colors, not the ones they think are going to get them elected. John Gardiner, LAKEWOOD, COLO...
...margin in both games. The losses put Harvard at 0-2 in the league and 7-14 overall. After this week’s shifts, the team’s full schedule this month has little room for more rainouts. The Cornell contest will be Harvard’s first of six Ivy League games in a four-day span, with Columbia and Penn coming to town this weekend...
...rallying Democrats in and around Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, the state's two largest cities. So why is he spending so much time in central Pennsylvania? "This is good old-fashioned retail campaigning, with perhaps a feint to surprise and unbalance the Clinton campaign and force her to contest every delegate," said Donald Kettl, a professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania. "In some of these communities, he's been playing to his base, such as the rally at Penn State. However, he's also made a few long reaches, such as bowling in Altoona, as much...
...diving team sent three of its athletes to the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships this past weekend at the Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way, Wash. The Crimson was represented by co-captain Geoff Rathgeber and juniors Eric Lynch and Bill Jones. Over the three-day contest, Rathgeber swam in three events, while Lynch and Jones each participated in two, earning Harvard a total of 19 points and a 29th place finish in the competition. “It’s a whole different meet,” Rathgeber said of the NCAA meet...
...compressed, fast-moving primary calendar this election year, the Texas contest of March 4 may seem like ancient history. But since the complicated hybrid voting affair in the Lone Star State involved a caucus as well as a primary, the hotly contested counting of delegates for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton is still going on, and this past weekend both campaigns did all they could to try to gain the upper hand...