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Walsh was also pleased with his team’s effort against one of the league’s best pitchers, Princeton junior David Palms, who has given the Crimson trouble in the past with his low-to-mid-90’s fastball and slider...
Aside from receiving personal and corporate gifts, HHI has also applied for grants from the United Nations crisis relief fund and the Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance, Bollettino said. Although the foundations have been encouraging, no grants have yet been formally given...
...second problem: among much of the Republican Party's smart set, Romney is not considered a satisfactory contender, in terms of talent, résumé or agenda, to take on Obama. And he is sure to face ferocious opposition from the right and left given his confusing opposition to the new federal health care law, which is strikingly similar to the measure he signed as Massachusetts governor (among other analogous items, the statewide plan included a requirement that individuals buy health insurance...
...single prospect is running fast ahead of the pack, there is less of a price to pay for a late entry. As the deadline approaches, as happens every cycle, we are likely to see a number of surprising candidates leap in with cases to make and stories to tell. Given the number of potential contenders, it will be interesting to see who gets in and who stays...
Make no mistake, Obama no longer towers as the über-formidable candidate of 2008. Yet the drastic ups and downs of his first year in office and the likely losses his party will suffer in the November midterms have given a distorted view of his muscle for 2012. He is back on track to raise $1 billion, with all of it to be applied to the general election, rather than to any serious nomination contest. Obama will almost certainly opt out of the matching-funds system for the nomination period and public financing for the general election, raising record...