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...second half opened with an exchange of goals from the Crimson and Johns Hopkins. The Blue Jays struck first, just 58 seconds into the half, when Burnett cut Harvard’s lead to one, assisted by Erin Riordan. The Crimson responded at 23:18 with a goal from Walton from a pass by senior Melissa Christino to put Harvard...
Burnett ignited the rally on a free position goal with only 3:01 remaining, and then scored again just 35 seconds later off the draw and a pass from Larrimore to cut the lead to two. Riordan then scored on a feed from Wellner to bring the Blue Jays within a goal with 1:40 left. But that was as far as Johns Hopkins got, as Harvard won the ensuing draw and ran out the remaining time...
When Karl Rove hatched the plan, it looked like the sort of deft political move that led George W. Bush to dub him "Boy Genius." Last year the President's political strategist recruited Los Angeles' popular outgoing mayor, Richard Riordan, to run for Governor against the vulnerable Demo-cratic incumbent, Gray Davis--and Rove seemed to be taking the first step toward remaking the moribund California G.O.P. in Bush's image. But Riordan's spectacular defeat in last week's Republican primary suggests that what passes for genius in Washington can look too clever by half anywhere else...
...unfair to blame the California debacle solely on Rove. Riordan, the millionaire ex-mayor whose moderate leanings led some party stalwarts to brand him a RINO (Republican in Name Only), ran a dismal race, blowing a 40-point lead. His untested opponent, millionaire businessman Bill Simon Jr., got an endorsement from 9/11 hero Rudy Giuliani and proved both surefooted and in tune with the conservative voters who dominate the primary. Then Davis did some meddling of his own, spending $10 million on attack ads against Riordan. But the White House failed to anticipate those factors, which explains why Presidents, like...
Bush's hand in the Riordan candidacy drew a postgame rebuke from Vice President Dick Cheney's old boss Gerald Ford, who told the New York Times that when he was President he had a "firm policy" not to play favorites in a primary. Ronald Reagan was so leery of showing preferences that he sometimes resisted posing for pictures with anyone who was up against another Republican. And George H.W. Bush broke the rule so rarely that his former political director Ron Kaufman could recall only two instances, both of which occurred when the elder Bush was Vice President. Senior...