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...Mitt Romney, repeating his win in the state that launched the Arizona veteran’s strong showing in the 2000 presidential primaries. Clinton’s victory, by a three point margin with 96 percent of precints reporting, came less than a week after Obama won the Iowa caucuses—a victory that had appeared to give Obama, a Harvard Law School graduate, significant momentum. But Clinton’s Harvard supporters said that their candidate was not to be underestimated. “Everyone left her for dead after Iowa, and that was just foolish given...
...ballooning size of university coffers, some legislators have sought to require that educational institutions spend at least 5 percent of their endowment annually. “The donations to those endowments and the endowments themselves are all tax-exempt,” said Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), who has championed the 5 percent mandate, in a statement Monday. “American taxpayers are subsidizing that tax-exemption, and they deserve public benefit in return.” Yale previously targeted an endowment payout rate of 5.25 percent and Harvard currently aims for 5 percent, but both universities...
...that after his second-straight silver medal - to use Romney's favorite Olympian metaphor - he plans to roll onto his native Michigan with his new-old campaign themes in place. On the surface, at least, the campaign will stick to the messages they turned to after their defeat in Iowa: competence and change, no longer his conservative credentials. "The governor's experience as a solution-oriented guy, a turnaround CEO, is a particularly good fit in Michigan," says his national spokesman, Kevin Madden. "We can win there with a focus on the economy and showing the governor is someone...
...success has focused the race, whether he wins here tonight, whether he wins the nomination or not, and that's to our advantage," says Castellanos. However, their new pitch hinges on basking in the reflected glow of his shiny message of change - "With Barack Obama, the people of Iowa have shown they want change," is now a standard line in Romney's stump speech - while also painting him as a dangerous radical: "The nation wants us to move forward, but," he says, referring to Obama, "do we want it to be a sharp left? Following in the path...
...were saying that the race really started tonight, McCain supporter Lindsey Graham - in the midst of a victory toast - laughed and questioned whether Romney can really run on that reputation any more: "It must really be bad to spend $10 million dollars on a race" - as Romney did in Iowa - "and not have it count...