Word: mason
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...also got strong performances from its distance crew, which performed exceptionally well in a small, wavy Yale pool that is generally not conducive to longer races. In addition to the 200 free, Wollner led a 1-2-3 finish in the 500 freestyle, with junior Eric Lynch and sophomore Mason Brunnick rounding out the top three. Additionally, Lynch led yet another 1-2-3 finish in the 1650 freestyle, as sophomore Alex Meyer nailed second, and Wollner came in third. Harvard also dominated the 200 and 400 medley relays.“The distance swimmers absolutely performed lights out this...
...polls released Sunday showed how tight the Democratic race in Missouri has become. A Mason-Dixon poll in cooperation with McClatchy newspapers and MSNBC found Clinton with a 6-point lead over Obama, 47-41, but a Reuters/Cspan/Zogby poll pegged the margin at Clinton 44, Obama...
...most boring. But his Democratic opponent, John W. Davis, was pretty conservative too. And so Robert La Follette, the only progressive in the race, won 17% of the vote. In 1968, the Democrats were pro--civil rights, and the Republicans were still largely persona non grata below the Mason-Dixon Line. So George Wallace, running against black rioters and white hippies, won five Southern states...
...most Gazans, though, shopping was the key. I saw a poor woman haggle over a single bulb of garlic as though it were a Manhattan town house. Goats and camels, prized for their meat, were on many shopping lists. So were commercial goods. On the Gaza side, an unemployed mason with nine kids was hoisting bags of cement off an Egyptian flatbed truck. The Israelis had banned the import of cement, so all construction had stopped. But with the opening, the price of a sack of cement fell from $60 to $12, he told me, so he was happily back...
...really the same way we organized back in the heyday of political machines: know your voters and turn them out personally," says George Mason University associate professor Michael McDonald, an expert on voter participation. "Obama has keyed into this and applied it on campus, using students to recruit other students...