Word: partisans
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...opened their season with a dominant performance in Ithaca, where the first varsity dismantled crews from Penn and Cornell in a one-sided fashion uncommon to lightweight rowing.But on Saturday, in the only home race the lightweights will have all year, the Crimson fell flat in front of its partisan crowd. Harvard’s first varsity dropped a back-and-forth battle to Dartmouth on Saturday, relinquishing the Biglin Bowl for the first time in three years. Though the second varsity rowed to a four-seat victory, extending its undefeated dual streak to 13 wins over 26 opponents...
...George Herbert Walker Bush. Rumsfeld organized his pals into an informal club and served four terms before leaping to the Nixon White House. There he rose through various mid-level posts and became, within four years, NATO ambassador. He was always unconventional; even in the depths of that partisan era, he maintained a close friendship with Allard Lowenstein, the famed liberal organizer. Rumsfeld took Lowenstein to Republican conventions; Lowenstein returned the favor...
There is, not surprisingly, partisan division over the dropout problem. Liberals say dropouts are either a by-product of testing mania or an unavoidable result of public schools' being starved for funding. But more conservative reform advocates, like Marcus Winters, a senior research associate at the Manhattan Institute, disagree. "Spending more money just has not worked," he says. "We've doubled the amount we spend per pupil since the '70s, and the problem hasn't budged...
...Indiana, however, there is a bipartisan consensus about the state's latest antidropout measure. Shelbyville representative Messer, former head of the Indiana Republican Party, is no stranger to partisan politics, but his strongest partner in pushing for the measure was a liberal Democrat named Stan Jones, who is now the state's commissioner of higher education. The bill they championed had, fittingly, both carrot and stick. Students who drop out before age 18 could have their driver's license suspended or their work permit revoked unless their decision was first approved by a school or judge. But students who found...
...Crimson fought to gain a three-seat lead in the third 500 meters. As both boats entered the final 500, Harvard clung to its three-seat lead and seemed primed to make a late surge and secure its 25th straight win. But Brown, urged forward by a partisan crowd that waited screaming at the finish line, did what no other crew has done in four seasons: out-sprint Harvard in the final 20 strokes. The Bears jumped the Crimson with 200 meters remaining, erasing the three-seat deficit and claiming the narrowest of margins as the boats began their final...