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...tournament-closing triumph.“The program is improving year in and year out,” Livingston said. “We have higher goals this season and we’re all pretty excited about our possibilities.”HARVARD 17, WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON 3Harvard truly found its offensive muscle on Sunday, blitzing through the Presidents with an explosive scoring effort.Twelve different players found the net for the Crimson. Senior co-captain Chris Ludwick was one of five players with two goals in his third consecutive multi-goal performance.The team’s defense also deserved accolades...
...many white candidates in that race railed against the "pimps and gang-bangers" who she said were behind the city's post-Katrina crime wave. And when Democratic U.S. Rep. William Jefferson was indicted on corruption charges last June, a group calling itself Justice for Jefferson raised charges that his prosecution was racially motivated - an accusation the Congressman did little to dispel during his successful reelection campaign...
...world by equaling Gore's fundraising and pulling even, if not ahead of him, in early New Hampshire polls. As part of a retooling that saw the campaign move its headquarters to Nashville and change in its entire high command, Gore went to the Iowa Democratic Party's Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner, where he pledged to "stay and fight" for Democratic policies and values. "I make you this promise tonight: in all the months and miles to come-I will stay. I will fight. And I will never let you down," Gore concluded after leading a stacked audience...
Those incentives, however, often do not outweigh the negatives, including a troubled school system, fewer flights in and out of the city and a reputation for official corruption - a lingering problem brought to the fore in recent weeks by the indictment of U.S. Rep. William Jefferson of New Orleans on bribery and corruption charges and the guilty plea of a former Orleans Parish School Board president, Ellenese Brooks-Simms, who admitted in June to taking more than $100,000 in bribes in exchange for her support of a multi-million dollar public school system contract...
With the widower Jefferson setting such an unpropitious social tone, the wife of his Secretary of State established an alternate "court" that she presided over for close to a half-century. Dolley Madison was the first to assume the role of what came to be dubbed "the Washington hostess," and she provided the model for the rest to follow. Dolley's dinners--used at first to promote her husband's career and then to solidify her own--delighted the politicians, and she made every guest feel like the most important person there. Living well into the middle of the 19th...