Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Kerry's was not the only campaign whose plans had been jolted that weekend. When the information reached President Bush two days earlier, he had been in almost the same position, launching what was supposed to have been a feel-good Midwestern bus tour focused on domestic politics. Even as Bush went from rally to rally, claiming achievements in education, health care and the economy, his thoughts were on the scary information that was pouring into the White House situation room. "It's hair raising," the President privately told an adviser aboard his campaign bus as it rolled between stops...
Unlike Mazzoleni, a Michigan State alum whose coaching experience was limited to Midwestern schools, many of the candidates seeking to replace him had spent time in Cambridge as players, assistants or both...
...Mazzoleni never approached anything resembling the prototypical “Harvard Guy,” and his Midwestern attitude and coaching philosophy was a constant irritant to a circle of players, parents and alums, many of whom became his—if not vocal—certainly well-heard critics...
Following close on the heels of Mazzoleni’s departure—whose Midwestern style often set him at odds with players, parents and alums, if not the athletic department—Donato’s selection marks a return to the coaching mold established by former coach and athletic director Bill Cleary ’56, himself a former member of the Crimson...
Unlike Mazzoleni, a Michigan State alum whose coaching experience was limited to Midwestern schools, many of the candidates seeking to replace him had spent time in Cambridge as players, assistants or both...