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...typical hockey jeers were there as well, with senior goaltender Dov Grumet-Morris taking most of the heat...
...Washington and Lee University showed up for a tryout with the New York Giants (the baseball Giants, that is--they hadn't yet decamped for San Francisco). The prospect made a decent showing: three innings, three men on base, no runs scored. Good screwball, nice sinker, not much heat. "If somebody had offered me a Class D professional contract," says the prospect--whose name was Tom Wolfe--many decades later, "I would have gladly put off writing for a couple of decades...
...govern a family’—or a university—‘as if you would cook a small fish; that is, very gently indeed.’ Here, I fear, I must break with Confucius. Sometimes we need to turn up the heat. Sometimes we need to flip that fish, make sure it lands properly on the other side. Harvard has no better ambassador, no better thinker, no stronger leader and maybe no better cook. Join in me in welcoming the president of Harvard, President Larry Summers...
...voting system is vulnerable to imperfection, abuse and human error. And it should not be forgotten that 12% of voters nationwide (and more than 70% in dead-heat Ohio) will be using the punch-card ballots that caused such havoc in Florida in 2000. But the lack of transparency in electronic voting may be particularly problematic. "The reason people trust elections is that they can see what's going on," says David Dill, a computer-science professor at Stanford University and founder of the Verified Voting Foundation. "With electronic voting, the handling of the ballots, putting ballots in the ballot...
...problem for Bush is that the race is still extremely close. In fact, other major independent polls taken last week showed the two men in a dead heat, and one gave Kerry a 3point lead. And several surveys showed Kerry outperforming Bush in the socalled battleground states--places like Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida--that will really decide who takes the oath of office next January. With so much conflicting data, each side can claim momentum going into the final leg of the campaign. --By James Carney...