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...Mulgan, 39, heads the Performance and Innovation Unit of the Cabinet Office and is central casting's notion of what the Americans call a wonk: the serious, policy-driven young man who can argue for hours in a windowless conference room about the fine points of progressive taxation. He is also seriously charming, disarmingly direct and an unusual marriage of fresh thinker and hustling entrepreneur. In his previous life, he organized rock concerts for Labour, consulted on telecommunications, wrote books and founded the respected Third Way think tank Demos. After working for Blair at Downing Street, where he helped launch...
...Although the leaders have manically driven and flown around the country campaigning, the journalists in pursuit of them on press buses have seemed more dutiful than excited. To enliven the tedium of long journeys with little opportunity for much real journalistic coverage, media on both the Labour and Tory buses played a bingo game. This involved picking slips out of a hat filled with Blair's and Hague's oft-repeated phrases, with scoring based on which of the phrases popped...
...They're both perfect for the job. They're both very driven, very responsible, very organized, and very self-motivated. They lead by example and are hard workers, which motivates and inspires the team," she said...
...Harvard surrounds itself with top-level competition in order to keep its skiers eligible for the NCAA tournament. The NCAA-driven schedule paid off this year for the first time since 1995, as freshman Anna McLoon qualified for the tournament at Middlebury College...
...firsts were far from over for this driven, talented squad. In an incredible showing that epitomized the passion of this team, the Crimson completely dominated EIWAs, the most important tournament of the season...