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...years. Whenever the 11th man from any European town emigrated to the States, a football team got organized. Football, the real variety, is an American game, too. Since the 19th century, whether it was Scottish mill hands in New Jersey, Portuguese fishermen in Massachusetts, Ukrainian steel workers in Pennsylvania, Italian masons and Irish sandhogs in New York City, or German brewers and shopkeepers in Missouri, one ethnicity after the next established its community and its football, not necessarily in that order...
...Stone would eventually leave the Hill for the other side of Pennsylvania Avenue, where he spent two and a half years as a speechwriter for Clinton. Stone decided to leave after the Republican takeover of Congress in 1994, and when Columbia University asked him to create a public relations office, Stone jumped at the opportunity...
...Faust became friends long before the president’s appointment. Nearly a decade ago, Spencer helped in the selection process that brought Faust from the University of Pennsylvania to Harvard. Spencer then served as Faust’s acting executive dean at Radcliffe, helping the newly-arrived leader get her feet on the ground. As the years wore on, the two continued to work closely, former University President Neil L. Rudenstine said...
...prevails. We want from our leaders not an aristocrat’s aloofness but the broad appeal of a character whittled smooth by hard work and strong values, one given not to bombast but to good country straight talk—be that over potatoes and Yuengling in Altoona, Pennsylvania, or fried steak and Lost Duck in Altoona, Iowa. With some unabashed image engineering, it turns out, nothing else really matters...
...really know Obama, Hillary, and McCain, and a case can be made that the general election will never reach the intensity of the primaries we’ve just been through. By this point, it’s definitely food for thought that in key swing states Ohio and Pennsylvania, Hillary beats McCain decisively in polls, and enjoys a moderate six to seven point lead over McCain in Florida. Obama, by contrast, has tenuous leads in Ohio and Pennsylvania, and hardly competes in Florida. And in North Carolina, a state whose primary Obama won handily, it’s Hillary...