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...have to take on Hitler, Bush appeased him, explaining that "I need all the votes" he could get. While McCain says he is running "because I owe America more than she has ever owed me," Bush sometimes seems motivated by a need to redeem his father's defeat. He keeps bringing it up in a way that suggests it has been his life's deepest wound. Last Wednesday he said that Buchanan's 1992 candidacy had had a role in derailing his father, and suggested that Ross Perot carried a "vendetta" against his family. In McCain's story his father...
Enter an NCAA Basketball pool. Then, root for the upsets, no matter what happens to your picks. The five bucks are worth the excitement of watching some podunk school celebrate its impossible defeat of College Basketball University...
Dole tried to counter his Republican opponent and soften his appearance by having pro-choice speakers at the Republican Convention, including New Jersey Governor Christie Todd Whitman. But as Dole's defeat in the general election shows, Republican candidates cannot shuffle to the right early in their campaigns and then try to drift towards the center without offering the public confusing and hypocritical views of themselves. This time, Bush's lead in the polls allows him to run a cohesive campaign during which he can show the public a consistent and moderate image from the beginning of the campaign...
...Crimson's two early-season losses were one-goal decisions against Penn State and Hartford, both top-15 teams, which would set a trend for the season. All of Harvard's losses, including its lone Ivy League defeat and its season-ending loss in the second round of NCAAs, came at the hands of top-15 teams...
...with a watered-down version of their own. That bill had Democratic backing and enough Republicans aboard to pass the House; now it?s mired in what the Dems say is GOP trickery. And as the debate slogged on, Clinton hit the Rose Garden to declare yet another noble defeat for the side of the angels...