Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like the Shah of Iran in his final days, Bob Dole's campaign doesn't have many places to set down. In almost every big state but Texas, there's an unwelcoming crowd on the ground. Michigan and Illinois? Not good. Likewise Ohio. Forget New York. Even Florida is tilting the wrong way. That suggests an explanation for the official version of the Republican endgame, the one Dole's campaign embarked on last week. It calls for a last-ditch effort to win California and its 54 electoral votes, even if that means neglecting smaller but more promising potential swing...
Senior tailback Eion Hu ran 33 times for 106 yards and scored twice on the ground, bringing his career total to 24 rushing touchdowns and 25 overall, within four of Harvard's career mark...
...arguing that we must all love fraternities, or that they are right for every college campus. But those who take the moral high ground in snubbing and condemning fraternities need to reassess their reasons for doing...
...extremely devoted students, often with a single person acting as the driving force behind its conception and execution. Such labors of love are occasionally bright stars in the local firmament--one thinks of Winsome Brown '95 as Oscar Wilde--but more often they remain rather stolidly on the ground, more remarkable for their intentions than for their results...
...which bear a lot of the weight and scrutiny in this type of period-piece, are first rate. Credit should also be granted to the care taken to make the play's grotesques truly grotesque: LBJ is represented as a disembodied head atop a glob of what looks like ground beef and pasta that is rolled onto the stage in a wheelbarrow; Lee Radziwell (Jackie's sister) as a child is shown as a three-foot-tall (gnomish) creature wearing a straw hat and a cardboard baby doll dress; Hugh Auchincloss is completely inanimate as a wrinkly amorphous head with...