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...Crimson couldn’t have asked for a better start to the new year and its Ivy League slate. Harvard played a near-perfect game in an 82-56 thrashing of league foe Dartmouth. The Crimson won both the turnover and rebounding battles and shot 51.8 percent from the field. It also benefited from an 83.3 shooting percentage from the charity stripe and 32 points from its bench. The victory in the team’s Ivy opener snapped a seven-game losing streak that dated back to Dec. 1. “My focus is allowing our team...
...this message: Of the majority of caucus-goers who said that “change” was the single most important issue for them, more than half voted for Obama, compared to 19 for Clinton and 20 for Edwards. Moreover, Obama won decisively among the unprecedented 57 percent of caucus-goers who had never attended a caucus before. The record turnout in Iowa, especially among the formerly politically apathetic, shows that his campaign is already starting to achieve its aims...
...increased standards in New York’s high schools and colleges. He reduced mob control of certain city markets, restructured the city’s hospital system, recharged the city after 9/11, and rectified many more problems, while reducing the tax burden on New Yorkers by over 17 percent. The list goes...
...also more concerned with achieving results than with touting partisan ideology. He reduced welfare rolls by 18 percent by adopting President Clinton’s “workfare” approach to fighting poverty...
...He’s done it before. In 1975, Romney earned both a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School and an M.B.A from Harvard Business School, where he ranked in the top five percent of his class. After school, Romney played the whiz kid at the management-consulting firm, Bain & Company, where he fixed failing companies. Six years later, Bill Bain tapped Romney to lead the private equity firm, Bain Capital. There, Romney helped build household names like Staples, Domino’s Pizza, and the Sports Authority. During his tenure, Romney returned an average annualized return...