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Harvard struggled to defeat Radford University in five games, mounting a comeback to win the last three games. Junior Elissa Hart was a big contributor with 19 kills and four aces...
...what about the many World Series where a less-talented squad pulled together to defeat a team which, on paper, looked invincible? In 1988, for instance, the mighty Oakland A's were shocked by the unheralded Dodgers, while in 1991 the Twins stunned the Braves...
From these starting points, the two men began inverse journeys. Dole wound through an intricate maze of largely self-inflicted wounds before suffering a humbling defeat; Clinton sensed the national mood, embraced it rigorously and was rewarded with a startling victory. How Clinton came back, how he co-opted the G.O.P.'s most popular prescriptions and repositioned himself as the sensible center's poster child, will be studied (and copied) for decades. Dole's effort will be remembered too--as a case study in how not to run for President. Clinton's stunning reinvention as the people's choice...
With the invaluable help of Dick Morris, the postideological strategist who had guided his 1982 comeback as Governor of Arkansas after a devastating defeat two years earlier, Clinton crafted a series of positions and actions that fixed him firmly in that holiest of political spaces, the center. In standing against Republican proposals to restrain the budget-busting cost of Medicare, Clinton appeared both compassionate and firm. In embracing the G.O.P.'s call for a balanced budget (in July 1995, fully eight months before Dole's nomination), he laid claim to fiscal sanity, an issue virtually owned by the Republicans since...
...wasn't all his fault. Any challenger to Bill Clinton would have had an uphill climb. When the economy is growing and the country is not at war, the incumbent always benefits. But some of Perot's most publicized post-'92 positions--in particular his campaigns to defeat NAFTA and GATT--had fizzled badly...