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...unkempt appearance and awkward demeanor, that he was a rube. His obvious discomfort in formal clothes on ceremonial occasions and his constant fidgeting with his ill-fitting kid gloves did little to dispel those misgivings. Moreover, he insisted on entertaining sophisticated visitors by telling country stories in a broad hoosier accent. Wall Street lawyer George Templeton Strong wrote in his diary after their first meeting that the President was a "barbarian," a "yahoo." And Strong liked...
...know it isn’t in keeping with the Christmas spirit, and may even be selfish of me, to try and guarantee that Harvard’s football team will be successful and not Indiana’s. After all, there are more Hoosier fans than Crimson Crazies...
...fought Indiana gubernatorial race that saw opponents hurling media brickbats at each other to the tune of $31 million, a state spending record, incumbent Democrat Joe Kernan joked that challenger Mitch Daniels, head of the Office of Management and Budget under George W. Bush, resembled The Simpsons' distasteful plutocrat. Hoosier voters, however, responded to Daniels' fiscal savvy--and to the coattails of his former boss--making him the state's first Republican Governor since...
...Hoosier goals in the final 90 seconds of the second quarter put Harvard in a 4-1 halftime hole. But the Crimson stole some of the momentum back from Indiana out of the break on the strength of a Keyser goal that closed the gap to two. Indiana finally was able to put Harvard away, however, scoring the next four goals to go up 8-2 before coasting to the eight goal victory...
...Hoosier defense was also strong, holding the Crimson to just five first-half shots while Indiana built a 7-0 lead...