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Mistakes he made in his past campaign,including a reference to New York City as"hymietown"--considered to be an antisemiticepithet--may haunt him in this election...
Those Harvard stars of years gone by are coming back to haunt their former (and future, in the cases of MacDonald and Bourbeau) teammates Sunday night, and if past experience is any indication, a long evening is in store for the home-towners...
...flew just barely to the right, just barely to the left, or just over the Tiger goal. The Crimson kept on firing, outshooting Princeton 27-12 in the end. An unexpected shot caught Harvard netminder Stephen Hall off guard for Princeton's opening goal. He didn't let it haunt him for the remainder of the game...
Following college, he began a more or less conventional career of academic jobs in this country, leavened by ruminative sojourns abroad. Martins Ferry continued to haunt him. Toward the end of his life, strolling through the golden sunlight of Italy, he could momentarily be blinded by a memory of the black snowdrifts back home and "the mill smoke that gets everything in the end." Wright won the Pulitzer Prize for his poetry in 1972 and died of cancer eight years later...
Every candidate for President strives for a persona that shouts to voters, "Here's a strong leader!" For Democrats, that imperative is a special challenge. The ghosts of Walter Mondale and Jimmy Carter haunt them with reminders of how easy it was for Ronald Reagan to depict Democrats as wimps, soft on foreign adversaries and pushovers for domestic special pleaders. Strategist Patrick Caddell, in a long paper on the party's flaws, urges his colleagues to "face the sensitive question: Is the Democratic Party perceived as a 'feminine' party and the G.O.P. a 'masculine' party . . . on characteristics such as 'strong...