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Madonna had four minutes to save the world, but budding entrepreneurs only had one to pitch their revolutionary business ideas...
...hours knocking on doors in Forest Park, a North Side working-class suburb of mostly African-American families that have moved out of the city. It's a neighborhood where nearly every front window sports a yellow ribbon or American-flag decal, and Driehaus barely needs to make his pitch. "Oh, yeah, we're voting for you," says a middle-aged woman. "We saw you at the rally with Obama." At another house, he exchanges a fist pound with a 3-year-old African-American girl named Kennedy...
With less than a week to go before the presidential election, politics is being conducted at a fevered pitch. But at a panel event yesterday, two Harvard economists—one from the political left and one from the right—instead focused on the common ground between the candidates, saying that the event was “not an occasion for political mud wrestling...
...atop the Ivy League.“Right now you have to get results. And we got a good result today,” coach Jamie Clark said.Harvard got off to a sluggish start in the first half, failing to muster much pressure on the Providence side of the pitch. “We just came off a pretty hard game against Princeton; it’s a midweek game—it’s hard sometimes to get up for these,” Fucito said of the Crimson’s slow opening.Luckily, the Friars were...
...Olson also has some clout in South Asian circles-his old boss Senator Cornyn founded the India Caucus in the Senate and is well-regarded by the district's Indian-American voters. Olson's pitch to voters emphasizes "a new generation of conservative leadership" for the district and his platform includes conservative stands on family and faith issues, low taxes and and cuts in government spending that have some appeal to small businessowners. However, one longtime commentator and analyst of Texas politics, Harvey Kronberg, editor of the Quorum Report, an Austin-based political newsletter, said he has never seen Democrats...