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...Lin’s shot clanged off the front rim, and the Crimson’s last-minute comeback fell short as the Harvard men’s basketball team (14-5, 3-2 Ivy) lost to Princeton (12-5, 3-0 Ivy) by three, 56-53, at Lavietes Pavilion...
...object of all of that attention was Fiorina's fiercely negative message: that Campbell, the front runner in the polls for the GOP nomination, was not a true fiscal conservative. Rather, he was a wolf in sheep's clothing, a "fiscal conservative in name only." The Campbell campaign responded by deploying its new-media consultant, Mindy Finn, on Twitter to try to direct the viral buzz. "If the GOP has any hope of taking back the senate it won't be by accusing each other of being #demonsheep," she wrote in one post, having already rated the spot a "marketing...
...giant rat with a gold crown, stomping like Godzilla through Atlanta. That was before the advent of YouTube and viral videos, so he screened the film for journalists at a movie theater; the next day, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution ran an image from the spot on its front page. Purdue went on to win the election...
...political communication, one in which free viral attention is just as valuable as costly television time. "I just say there are two choices," Davis says of his advice to his clients. "You can pay a whole lot of money to get your message in front of eyeballs, or you can go out on a limb a little bit." For Davis, that's a no-brainer...
...trainers' presence had been Pakistan's worst-kept secret. They're here at the invitation of the paramilitary Frontier Corps, the front-line force in the battle against the Pakistan Taliban, to help improve its poor counterinsurgency capability. In 2008, Washington dispatched 100 military personnel to train Pakistani officers, who would in turn pass on their skills to rank-and-file soldiers; but local sensitivities precluded the Americans from being given direct access to the troops. As U.S. special envoy Richard Holbrooke told reporters in Washington, "There is nothing secret about their presence there...