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...performance tied a Harvard single-game record, set by Glenn Fine in a game against Detroit back...
Prasse-Freeman's 15 assists against Yale tied the Harvard record for most assists in a game. He ties the record set by Glenn Fine, who had 15 against Detroit December...
...Bush across Michigan, Engler realized that rebellious Republicans may not be his only problem--or even his main one. At a cheerleading dinner in Muskegon (his second on behalf of Bush that night), Engler held up a letter from the newest force in Michigan politics: an outfit called DOGG (Detroiters Out to Get even with Governor Engler). Written by a Democratic state representative, the letter asked 200 Detroit clergymen to urge their mostly Democratic congregations to vote for John McCain in the Republican primary next week. Engler implored his audience to fight back: "We can't let Democrats decide...
...much by their dislike of Engler as by their excitement about McCain. The Governor has annoyed a lot of Michiganders since he was first elected in 1990, and he is finding that he is almost as big an issue in the upcoming primary as the candidates. Residents of Detroit are unhappy with the way the state took over the school board and eliminated a residency requirement for city employees. Some public school teachers don't like the way Engler pushed through 173 charter schools. And Democratic-leaning union officials just want to make a little trouble. Though the officials insist...
...into the murk, sucked back into the violence and stupidity, the sleaze and failure, the narcissism and paranoia. It all comes back: riots at the gas pumps, terrorists on every flight, double-digit inflation, the last ignominious helicopters out of Saigon, the explosion of crime, the lousy cars from Detroit, Nixon's sweating upper lip as he says good-bye, the Club of Rome's gaudy apocalypse, the massive dumbing down of everything, and the perfect denouement - the Ayatollah and the hostage crisis...