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...both boats finished 12th in their division.“We had some very sporadic races. We either did pretty well or very badly,” sophomore crew Quincy Bock said. Skipper Garrity helmed the A-division boat, assisted by crews Bock and junior Winston Yan. Sophomore skipper John Stokes and junior crew Michelle Konstadt competed in the B division.The A boat’s six top-ten finishes were offset by two 17th-place races, while the B boat was unable to recover from a disqualification in the fifth race of the regatta.Roger Williams emerged victorious, winning...
During the presidential campaign, Harvard College professors have donated to Democratic candidate Barack Obama over Republican candidate John McCain at a ratio of roughly 20 to 1. Few at the College would be surprised by this figure. The words “liberal” and “faculty” seem to have been conjoined at the College for generations.But now, as the election moves into its final days, McCain supporters on the faculty are vocal in their demands for more political diversity in their departments, bemoaning a kind of underclass of conservative faculty. Some have even called...
...John McCain used to joke about politicians - like George W. Bush - who claimed they never paid any attention to polls. "Oh, no, we never look at the polls!" he said aboard the Straight Talk Express in the days before the New Hampshire primary in January. Then he shot a glance over to his chief strategist, Steve Schmidt, and asked with a grin, "Any new polls this morning, Sergeant Schmidt? Any new numbers?" Like most politicians and political professionals, McCain was obsessed with the polls. He knew how to read them. And he knew - whether they bore good news...
...McCain, say people who know him, believes he still has a chance. There are enough stray signs of hope - like a one-day poll sample from John Zogby that placed Obama's national advantage over McCain at just 3 percentage points (though most other national tracking polls put Obama's lead more in the 5-to-10-point range) - to keep the candidate and the the campaign going. Eschewing the attacks revolving around Bill Ayers and ACORN that appeared to backfire earlier this month, McCain is focusing most of his firepower on two primary targets: Obama's readiness...
...national headquarters of John McCain's campaign are in northern Virginia, near the condo where he stays when he is working across the river in Washington. But McCain didn't get around to actually campaigning in the most pivotal part of this pivotal state - exurban Prince William County - until the weekend of Oct. 18. That's when he realized he was running about 10 points behind in a state that hasn't voted Democratic since...