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When TV cameras, radio reporters and hundreds of confused activists stampeded Jeff Smith’s campaign office, where I had been working for the past two months, I wasn’t in the best condition to understand what was going on. The facts, as I understood them, went as follows: 1) For two months, I had been working for Jeff Smith, a 30-year-old adjunct professor from Washington University who was running for Gephardt’s old Congressional seat against Russ Carnahan, who has the biggest name in Missouri politics; 2) We had no local endorsements...
Carnahan’s “district-wide campaign” also fastidiously avoided grassroots organizing. Jeff, who had no institutional support, had made grassroots organizing a central tenet of his strategy, and we expected that the Third District race would be largely a test of whether a grassroots campaign could beat a traditional Democratic campaign—a campaign that focused on television and endorsements over personal contact...
...answer lies as much in psychology as in economics. "There's not a lot of logic to the move that oil has had," says Jeff Kleintop, chief investment strategist at PNC Advisors, noting that a tepid U.S. jobs report last Friday raises the specter of a decelerating economy, which would cut demand for oil. Indeed, share prices of U.S. refiners like Sunoco and ConocoPhillips tumbled even further than the overall market did last week...
...Infielder-outfielder Simon Pond started this season with the Blue Jays, and now plays alongside Clapp for the Syracuse SkyChiefs. Lefthander Jeff Francis hasn't reached the bigs yet, but he's the staff ace. He has a deceptive delivery that allows him to hide the ball from batters until almost the moment he releases...
...BASEBALL Chris Begg, Uxbridge, Ont. Todd Betts, Scarborough, Ont. Stubby Clapp, Windsor, Ont. Eric Cyr, Montreal Jason Dickson, London, Ont. Rob Ducey, Toronto Jeff Francis, Vancouver Jeff Guiel, North Vancouver Mike Johnson, Edmonton Danny Klassen, Leamington...