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...first presidential race, Trippi - who has worked on every contested race in Iowa since 1980 - had organized all of Monticello's youngsters to caucus for Kennedy. His rival, Hogan, host of the county's largest caucus, had likewise organized the precinct's parents to caucus for Carter. When none of the kids dared defy their parents' wishes, Kennedy lost the precinct - and the county. "I remember being in the kitchen a few weeks before that when Ethel Kennedy came to visit our house, campaigning for Ted," James Hogan, Jr., Jimmy's son, recalls chuckling. "Some Kennedy aides were lamenting that...
...giveaways by the point guard on the afternoon, with 53 seconds to play led to a jumper by Sanders, giving Irvine a three-point lead with 22 seconds on the clock. The Crimson had a few opportunities to tie the game in the last seconds, but none of its shots fell. “It was a tale of two halves,” Amaker said. “We had great energy, emotion and execution in the first half.” Harvard did come out strong, taking the lead just over a minute into the game and holding...
...chance to talk politics with family around the dinner table. "If anybody tells you that they know how to do this caucus in 2007 and 2008, they are crazy," said Bob Haus, a veteran Republican consultant who is running Thompson's Iowa operation. "This is a paradigm in which none of us have ever operated before...
...misguided policy of shoving democracy down the throat of the Middle East and Muslim world. Since 9/11 there has not been a single country in that region that has had peaceful and successful elections. Hamas's victory in Gaza, the stalemate in Lebanon, elections in Iraq and now Pakistan - none of them have led to the stability, modernity and civil society this Administration promised...
Rural basketball coaches, inner-city math and music teachers - they are, as we all know, everywhere in the movies, inspiring their unlikely charges to equally unlikely triumphs. Most of these films insist they are based on "true" stories, though none that I know of confess to those melodramatic heightenings of the facts that, sooner or later, place lumps in our throats - which, according to taste, we either wallow in or try to swallow back...