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...this year’s campaign. Capturing its second Ivy League title in as many years and placing three women on the All-Ivy team—including inaugural Ivy Rookie of the Year Christine Cho—the Crimson steamrolled through its Northeast competition. “This season went phenomenally,” incoming captain Claire Sheldon said. “Winning all but one of our tournaments is really impressive, and we performed very well week in and week out throughout the season.” Claiming titles at the Princeton Invitational and the Yale Fall Intercollegiate...
Train Deals. Amtrak is offering 25% off fares in the Northeast U.S. until September. Now you can travel from Washington, D.C., or Boston to New York City for $49. From Philly to Washington, it's just $33. Fares are good from June 2 to Sept. 3; reservations must be made two weeks in advance...
...groups to resuscitate their brand, while Democrats are publishing books like The Strange Death of Republican America and 40 More Years: How the Democrats Will Rule the Next Generation. John McCain's campaign manager recently described his party as basically extinct on the West Coast, nearly extinct in the Northeast and endangered in the Mountain West and Southwest...
...Dirty: The lists of cleanest cities showed a bit more geographic variety, though there is a not-so-shocking abundance of Western and mountain states represented on the clean side - Portland, Maine being the lone Northeast representative on any of the clean lists. Cities like Redding, Salinas and Santa Barbara in California redeem the state's lackluster performance by falling on the lower end of a couple of the cleanest-cities charts...
...those states' large black electorates, as well as the infusion of relatively affluent transplants who aren't beholden to the region's old-school political regimes. Now, of course, the Republican Party is struggling to move beyond its base of rural Southern white Protestants and into the Midwest and Northeast. So the governor's races quickly taking shape in Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia and in Alabama will be key tests of whether the Democrats can extend their recent gains. (Watch a video where Artur Davis and others discuss who should be TIME's 2008 Person of the Year...