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...arrive at the Suffolk Downs horse track a little after 1 p.m. on President's Day, and soon I'm inside the grandstand. Taking a cursory stroll down the length of the large room, the place has the feel of an oversized, smoke-filled branch of the DMV. Except that people aren't filling out vehicle registration applications or pouring over license renewal instructions; what they're doing, mostly, is studying the racing form. I pick up a copy and look it over, and it isn't long before I'm ready to, as they say, make a wager...
When Harvard moved, Yale struggled. With 500 meters left, the Crimson again increased the cadence to open up a boatlength lead on the now exhausted Elis. As the crews sprinted past the crowded grandstand, Harvard held on to top Yale by just over one length...
...takes me all over the grounds, inside the sparsely populated grandstand and the even less crowded restaurant. The place is anything but a dive--it's large, clean and very charming. There are hundreds of televisions scattered all over the recently revamped of televisions scattered all over the recently revamped facility, but somehow, it retains the feel of an old fashioned amusement park. Scores of people say hello to Bob and I begin to see what he means about the age of the clientele. It's hard to find a person under...
...start. There were no tailgate parties, but rather just a bunch of people looking for tickets. Naturally, we thought that bleacher seats or standing room would be all that was left. Instead, we got third-row tickets down the left field line in the grandstand...
...Indeed, a remarkable feature of America's problems, as analyzed in Gingrich's book, is that they are never the fault of Republicans. Even the slightest misdemeanor, if committed by a Republican, turns out to originate in some external cause. For example, Gingrich once saw some Republicans in Congress "grandstand for the news media." (Imagine that!) But it turns out they had been egged on by "liberals in the Washington press corps...