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...another man who has never won a national championship, but earned a reputation as an excellent coach after taking a lightly regarded Providence team to the Final Four. Yet Pitino too has his detractors, who say his reputation is does not measure up to the reality. As a double-digit favorite to win this year's event, Pitino has perhaps more to lose than Boeheim, who surprised many just by getting this far with a team that finished fourth in its conference...
Dole's satisfaction at the election results came in the face of three new national surveys showing Clinton with double-digit leads in head-to-head matchups. They also showed Dole would suffer if Ross Perot mounted another independent candidacy...
...period ending in late February, there was a movement away from both Dole (down 10 points) and Steve Forbes (down 6) and toward Buchanan (up 16 points) and Lamar Alexander (up 9). For all the attention lately to his weaknesses, however, Dole remains well out front with a double-digit lead over all his nearest competitors...
What's more, the notion that tying the dollar to gold is needed to keep inflation low is simply false, mainstream economists say, and makes Forbes' passion almost inexplicable. Ever since Fed chairman Paul Volcker, whom Forbes calls an "obtuse man," wrung double-digit inflation out of the economy in the early 1980s, yearly price increases have averaged 3% to 3.5%. Yet despite this climate, Forbes called on the Treasury Department last year to issue bonds that were indexed to inflation to eliminate this unacceptable risk to principal...
...here at Harvard, from ground-breaking research, like last year's myriad genetic breakthroughs at the Harvard Medical School, to crucial societal debates, like the fracas surrounding last year's decision by Harvard to rescind Gina Grant's admission offer. The New York Times ran an unprecedented double-digit number of articles on events at Harvard last year. We are right here in the middle of national news. If there is any time and any place that should make one feel as if he or she is "in the middle of it all," it is now, right here at Harvard...