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Despite its difficulties from the floor, the Crimson still had a legitimate chance to knock off the top team in the Ivy League. But Harvard—which was shooting a conference-leading 72.5 percent from the charity stripe entering the night—went cold from the line, shooting just 13-24 (54.2 percent), including 7-16 (45.7 percent) in the second half...
...that mean keeping students out of the loop? Mahan and other council leaders surely have ample opportunity to consult quietly with one another about their most private strategies—outside of council sessions. When the deliberation process is far enough along to come to open debate on the floor of the council, the deadline for such secrecy has long passed...
...over the issue ensures that gay marriage will remain an explosive talking point straight through November, and in the meantime will produce some political contortions. Kerry, for instance, is one of only 14 Senators who voted against DOMA, which he described as an instance of "gay bashing on the floor of the United States Senate." Yet on Good Morning America last week Kerry said a federal amendment was unnecessary because DOMA shielded states that did not want to accept gay marriage--which put him in the awkward position of pointing out the usefulness of a law he voted against. Bush...
Cahill beefed up the campaign's outreach to veterans and decreed an end to the gimmick of posing Kerry on a Harley at nearly every campaign stop. She bluntly told the candidate he had to quit sounding as if he were on the Senate floor and start showing some fire. But her first big strategic move made hardly any sense at all to anyone who wasn't at Cahill's table. With Kerry trailing in New Hampshire, campaign staff members would look instead to Iowa's caucuses the week before to give them a bank shot. "We knew that Dean...
...backyard nearly unattended, except for appearances by his wife Teresa Heinz Kerry and his campaign chairwoman, former New Hampshire Governor Jeanne Shaheen. It wasn't easy to watch Kerry drop steadily in the public polls in a state that everyone knew he needed to win. Staff members on the floor below could hear Cahill's reaction each morning when the public polls would reach her computer screen. They called it "the 10:30 scream...