Word: rath
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...diploma that would have made me a Hebrew teacher. So on the ninth, I headed home early in the evening and went to bed at 9 so I would be refreshed the next morning. We had already heard a few days before about the assassination of Ernst vom Rath, an official at the German embassy in Paris, killed by a Polish Jew, and it was a very bad omen. Everything went fine until about 2:30 in the morning, when we were awakened by a big crash. I got up and didn't know what might have happened. I lived...
Pinned deep in his own territory, Schwenk’s first drive was quickly ended when Lehigh running back Eric Rath fumbled on his own 1-yard line...
...Crimson’s first break came late in the second quarter, when Lehigh running back Eric Rath fumbled a pitch at his own 4-yard line. Harvard defensive tackle Jon Berrier alertly came off his block and pounced on the ball...
...took George Bush a while just to realize he'd been shot. His aides had been relentlessly smug about his prospects coming out of Iowa. He was so confident in the final strategy sessions that when New Hampshire veterans like Judd Gregg and Tom Rath urged Bush to slap McCain around a little, cut a negative ad comparing McCain to Clinton and slot it into the weekend rotation, they ran into a wall. Like his dad fending off Bob Dole in 1988, "W" was resistant, but unlike his dad, he wouldn't be budged. One reason: "W" believed...
...Rath thought McCain was getting a free ride. "The question is whether we should have defined him earlier," Rath recalls. "One of the reasons you couldn't introduce any contrary evidence on him was because he had become St. John. It was too late." And Bush was adamant: the whole point of their strategy--of building the unprecedented war chest and collecting all the endorsements--was to get so far out in front that there would be no need to lurch to the right or engage in intraparty fratricide. "Our object is to win a nomination that is worth having...