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...many of Barre's 5 million center-right supporters would turn to the Socialist but moderate-sounding President. The pollsters carefully spelled out the arithmetic of Mitterrand's task. From the environmentalist, Communist and fringe Marxist parties, they calculated, Mitterrand could expect to add 13.5 percentage points to his first-round score. Total...
...professionals estimated that the President could also count on 3 percentage points from Le Pen's first-round total. That support, they thought, would come mainly from disenchanted Communists in working-class districts, where Le Pen sentiment was often strongest. Such voters had cast anti- immigrant protest ballots in the first round, but were expected to return to the leftist fold in the runoff. An additional 2 points of support was expected from Barre voters. All that would push Mitterrand over the top with nearly...
...doubt that Harvard could compete against Miami or the bigger schools," said University of Miami wide receiver Michael Irvin, a 1988 first-round draft pick of the Dallas Cowboys...
...first-round game against the Flames was the first time UIC Coach Val Belmonte, a former assistant coach at Harvard, faced Cleary, his former mentor. The way the Flames played in the first two periods against Harvard, Belmonte thought his first meeting against Cleary wasn't going to be a happy...
...season had a bittersweet ending last weekend in the NCAA Tournament first-round series against MSU at Bright Center. Yet the entire season--whatever twists and turns it took in the post-season--could not have been a dissapointment...