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...Black voters in Texas didn't show up in record numbers for Obama - turning out, as a percentage of the vote, in lower numbers than in 2004. The Obama campaign is hoping the low turnout was a one-time fluke; if it wasn't, states like Mississippi, where black voters made up 56% of primary voters in 2004, could get a lot tougher to win for the Illinois Senator - not to mention states like Pennsylvania, where blacks made up roughly...
Above all, the election was a resounding personal triumph for Margaret Hilda Thatcher, 57, the grocer's daughter from Grantham, Lincolnshire, whose arrival at 10 Downing Street in 1979 was considered by many in her party to be a fluke. Emerging from far outside the ranks of the Tory Establishment and claiming only four years' experience in a minor Cabinet post (as Education Secretary in the early 1970s), Thatcher was virtually untutored in the art of governing, untested under fire. But in four years' time she earned the nickname "Iron Lady," as a tough, gritty leader who seemed to relish...
...just what the doctor ordered.On Friday, the Crimson opened its dual-match season by defeating #38 William and Mary 4-3 in a match that came down to the final set between each team’s No. 1 singles player. On Saturday, Harvard showed that it is no fluke by controlling Purdue, 6-1, reversing the outcome of last year’s match.Both matches, held at Harvard’s Murr center, were valuable learning experiences for Harvard—William and Mary taught the squad how to come back from any early deficity, Purde...
...crime rate. "The relationship between the economy and crime has never been well understood or clear-cut," says Arthur Lurigio, a criminal justice professor at Loyola University in Chicago. "The changes in law enforcement policies and significant declines in homicides cannot be ignored or dismissed as coincidence or fluke. Policing has become more strategic and smarter than it has ever been...
...going to change, they say. And it would be dangerous to try. "His challenge is to stay disciplined and stay on the track," said one adviser. "I don't see a shift in any way, shape or form. If you believe that this has not been a fluke from the start, and we do, then there should be no shift as you go to a bigger audience...