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...Wisconsin win was just the latest in a series by Obama in states where he trailed Clinton on New Year's Day, and raises the possibility that he could follow the same come-from-behind path in some, if not all, of the March 4 states, which also include Rhode Island and Vermont. Little is known for certain about the two campaigns' competing strategies in Texas and Ohio, and there was some evidence early this week that neither had settled on a clear game plan...
...level in Iraq remains at 130,000 for a period of time. That will give Petraeus and the Bush Administration, which wants to avoid any action that could jeopardize the past year's gains in Iraq, leverage to suspend the pullout for a time. Senator Jack Reed, Democrat of Rhode Island and a former Army officer, asked Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, at a hearing last week if doing that wouldn't break the Army. "The real opportunity to reduce the tours to 12 months would be seriously compromised if, in fact, we commit to 15 brigades...
...which takes a historical tour of the scenes of three presidential assassinations. She is now writing a book on the history of the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and the Puritan squabbling between John Winthrop, Roger Williams, and Anne Hutchinson that resulted in the founding of Rhode Island and Connecticut. “Do they tell you when they’re indoctrinating you in Harvard history that your school was founded because a bunch of poor Massachusetts boys were outsmarted by a girl and didn’t want it to happen again?” she says...
...interject that I have never voted and that my idea of civic responsibility is my encyclopedic knowledge of the contents of Jackie Kennedy’s wedding trousseau. I am sure this offends many of you, and this doesn’t bother me. If you grew up in Rhode Island, home to four electoral votes and the only state in the union to have a mayor, a governor and two Supreme Court justices all in jail at the same time, I doubt you would vote either.Though I feel incapable of assessing any of the candidates’ positions...
...behind the winner. The women’s 4x400 relay and distance medley teams also placed, giving the Crimson a total of 75 points for the day. Ivy teams swept the top three spots, with Brown taking the event with 144 points and Cornell coming in second with 135. Rhode Island’s 55.5 points and New Hampshire’s 51.5 points rounded out the top five behind Harvard. The men’s team, in addition to the three winners, placed three other individuals. Freshman Dan Chenoweth ran the 800 meters in 4:13.58, earning third place...