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...hypothetical voice of a prospective nominee: "I make six figures and have an expense account that reaches from here to eternity. Tell me again why I would want to run the nomination gauntlet to toil away in a huge government bureaucracy." Statements like that help explain why a nominee like businessman and Democratic fund raiser Terry McAuliffe withdrew his name from consideration for Secretary of Commerce. Even hush-hush high finance isn't a draw: two governorships on the Federal Reserve are vacant. Any takers...
...Princeton in seven. They are consistently two of the best teams in the Ivy League, and because of their geographic proximity to each others, the league's other six teams have to face them back-to-back in the same weekend. A Penn-Princeton weekend is truly the proverbial gauntlet, with a chance for a league title at the other side...
...parents' house in Orange County, trying to comfort her mother Juditha. Juditha was worried about Denise, convinced that Simpson would somehow hurt her. The Browns were also concerned about logistics: How would they get into the courthouse when the verdict came down without going through the media-and-heckler gauntlet? They sent an emissary to scout a back entrance and consider a front-door decoy or diversion for verdict day. As it turned out, when the verdict came down by the early evening of Feb. 4, the Browns found themselves two hours away from Santa Monica--behind the Los Angeles...
Next weekend, Harvard runs the gauntlet of road games at Penn and Princeton, who have won every Ivy League title since the Mesozoic Period. To win there, the Crimson will need all of its players to play well-so well that anyone on the court deserves to get the ball on each possession. The Crimson need to play a game like the one seen last night...
...moment, however, there are the protests. Over the past three weeks, the demonstrators seemed to be simultaneously flinging a gauntlet in the face of a hated regime and giddily indulging in a long-overdue chance to lampoon it. They banged spoons on plates to emphasize the depth of Serbia's economic malaise. They marched in front of the state-run TV network holding their noses "because the lies stink so much." They sprayed parliament with detergent (to symbolize the need to clean up corruption). Even as the winter weather turned from surly to mean, the crowd's numbers--and boldness...