Word: michigan
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Last week the commentariat was bemoaning the possibility that Hillary Clinton would take her fight about Florida and Michigan all the way to the convention. But, she has since signaled that she will bow out on Friday. The “struggle” is now shifting to the question of whether Hillary will be chosen as Obama’s running mate. Certainly there are Hillary supporters who are transmuting their ardor for her presidential candidacy into a desire to see her round out the ticket. But Hillary is not trying to “muscle?...
...specter of Robert Kennedy's assassination, that Obama hadn't defended Clinton sufficiently after the disgraceful attack by Father Michael Pfleger from the pulpit of Trinity United Church of Christ, that the Obama campaign had played too rough in the Democratic Rules Committee battle, which granted the disputed Michigan and Florida delegations half representation. There was, more significantly, the lingering conviction that Obama didn't, and couldn't possibly, represent the women like Margaret Dinock who had been empowered by Clinton - that Obama was another iteration of the effete Al Gore?John Kerry presidential model. It seemed clear that Clinton...
...advice.Don’t choose a college based solely on its sports teams, he told me—a seemingly ridiculous suggestion given the magnanimity of my decision.But my dad had ample reason to be skeptical. Tucked away with information about Harvard were pamphlets from Duke, Stanford, Michigan, Wisconsin, Virginia, and Oklahoma, the other schools to which I sent applications. His daughter, who had filled out March Madness brackets long before she knew how to spell “Mississippi” or “Valparaiso” (but who picked Valpo over Ole Miss...
...never stops. That is, the writing must continue even when the team loses.That means I travelled to exciting places like Philadelphia and Princeton, in addition to not so exciting places like Ithaca.That means I had the privilege of interviewing Tommy Amaker after his new Harvard team defeated his old Michigan team in Harvard men’s basketball’s greatest win this past December, as well as the unfortunate task of interviewing him after his team had lost seven in a row—twice.That means I watched Harvard sweep Penn and Princeton in the same weekend...
GAMES OF THE YEAR: Harvard-Boston College Men's Hockey GAMES OF THE YEAR: Harvard-Michigan Men's Basketball