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...finishing ninth in all five of its competitions. Improving from last year’s 10th-place result, the Crimson’s steady finishes were a solid achievement. Racing in the EISA division, Harvard competed against fellow Ivies as well as other Northeast schools with some of the oldest skiing programs in the nation. “We’re racing in the most difficult league in the country,” said Alpine head coach Tim Mitchell. “When competing in the Ivy League in most other sports, it does not represent the absolute...
...race in an efficient way when he knew his run was done, has stayed out of sight through the late spring, held some fundraisers for McCain and even turned over his donor lists. And Romney has one other factor in his favor. When the standard bearer would be the oldest president in history (72 on inauguration day), the party needs someone the country can imagine as President nearby. On that score, McCain's choices, like Reagan's in 1980, are limited. Romney is an unlikely Number Two. But I'm prepared to be, as Bush wrote, surprised...
...went on to dominate the American potato business. He supplied U.S. troops with dried food during World War II and sold French fries to fast-food chains, but the Idaho native also invested in cattle, fertilizer plants and timber--not to mention computer-chip pioneer Micron Technology. The oldest billionaire in the world last year, according to Forbes, Simplot remained ambitious--and proud--driving around Boise in a white Lincoln Town Car with mr. spud vanity plates...
...that McCain, who, at 72 on Election Day, would be the oldest person elected President, was pressured to release more than 1,000 pages of his medical records, presumably every doctor notation of his well-being created since 2000. The unveiling took place Friday for about 20 reporters amid a spread of bagels and muffins in a back room at the Copperwynd Resort and Club in Fountain Hills, Arizona...
...condemns. Now the lobbyist issue is roiling McCainLand, prompting more departures--including top fund raiser and former Representative Thomas Loeffler--and a strict conflict-of-interest policy. The sudden house-cleaning has raised an awkward question: Why is McCain seemingly drawn to people from the world's second-oldest profession? (Campaign manager Rick Davis and top strategist Charlie Black are both former lobbyists.) Some suggest the flap represents the latest example of McCain's famous inattention to detail--a potential vulnerability in the campaign, and in the White House...