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Despite the large margin of defeat, the rowers remain upbeat that their performance will only improve with time...
...effort to build a coalition that could swell the ranks of communist voters to the more than 50% he needs to avoid a run-off in the presidential vote, Zyuganov has cut back on Marxist verbiage, and is making an effort to include all groups that could help him defeat Yeltsin. Yet a large percentage of the nation's voters are profoundly suspicious, fearing that Zyuganov's talk of popular fronts and his promises to play by parliamentary rules are a smoke screen to mask his real ambitions...
Indeed, the Wildcats still managed to defeat the Syracuse Orangemen by a score of 76-67 (please see story, page...
...today neither Clinton nor Dole is widely believed to believe in anything enough to go down to defeat fighting for it. That may seem unfair to say, but the exceptions are conspicuous, and anchored deeply in their personal histories. Clinton is at his best and most passionate talking about education, which gave him such a resume, and civil rights, having grown up in a segregated town where his grandfather owned a grocery store on the edge of the black neighborhood. Dole's maiden speech in the Senate was about the disabled. He will support any bill remotely related to Armenia...
...trailing President Clinton by a fair margin, Dole has been taking on "old veto Bill" in his speeches. TIME Washington correspondent Tamala Edwards says Dole is really beginning the general campaign in California, and that he will not repeat the mistake George Bush made in 1992 by tacitly acknowledging defeat in that state. On the trail, Dole told Republican crowds: "We're not going to write off California. It's going to be 'right on,' not 'write off.'" Despite photo-op stump stops at a San Quentin gas chamber and the Mexican border, Edwards says Dole has not focused...