Word: marylands
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...recruitment—like guaranteeing the top 10 or 20 percent of the high school graduates admission to the state college of their choice—they could not match the diversity of the student body found in states that still use affirmative action, like Illinois, New York, and Maryland...
...competition than their New Haven counterparts.The weekend started promisingly, as Harvard pulled out two victories, taking an 8-6 nailbiter over George Washington before weathering a furious comeback by Wagner to win 14-13. On Sunday, the Crimson finally met their match, falling 11-8 and 14-10 to Maryland and Princeton, respectively.PRINCETON 14, HARVARD 10After featuring a variety of scorers in their earlier game against Maryland, Harvard looked to once again display its depth against the nationally ranked Tigers. Tied at three after a quarter of play, Princeton rolled out a 5-1 run to take the four-goal...
...force is Barack Obama. His sweep of the Potomac Primaries in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C., on Tuesday gives him seven straight wins since Super Tuesday, not to mention his first lead in pledged delegates. Unprecedented amounts of money are pouring into his campaign coffers. He now has momentum that any challenger would envy in any year. Indeed, in any other year, a candidate with his numbers would have the nomination locked up tight...
...truly unstoppable. In Virginia, Obama won around 64% of the vote, doing especially well not just with his expected bases of independents, young voters and African-Americans, but also besting Clinton at the segments touted as her strengths - older and blue-collar voters, and even women. His performance in Maryland, where he took around 60% of the vote, was equally impressive and broad-based...
...certainly don't factor momentum into any of our calculations," said David Plouffe, Obama's campaign manager, on Tuesday afternoon. "We obviously did well on Saturday and Sunday but we don't think that has much relevance to what happens in the Mid-Atlantic. And whatever happens [in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia] is not going to have much impact in Wisconsin or Hawaii [next Tuesday...