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CAMPAIGN SCORECARD [This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] ROUND 1 2 3 4 ISSUE Momentum Party Unity Enthusiasm Money ACTION National and key-state polls show the selection of Sarah Palin and a post--St. Paul bounce gave John McCain a turbocharge (and squelched any positive thrust the Democrats might have had after Denver). Barack Obama seems thrown off by his change in fortune, and Democrats have not been able so far to curb the Republicans' forward motion. Thanks to deft handling of Hurricane Gustav, finessing of the popular-with-the-base/unpopular-with-the-nation President Bush...
...week's winner is based on the relative importance of each fight and by how much the winner takes each round...
...Kocurek said. “Bigger picture stuff—more competitive drills as opposed technicalities.” The women’s squad continues its season at home this weekend in Lavietes Pavilion, where it will face off against American University in the first round of the Harvard Invitational on Friday. —Staff writer Emmett A. Kistler can be reached at ekistler@fas.harvard.edu...
...credit ratings have soared over the summer, making the federal option even more crucial. All three of Detroit's carmakers have had their credit ratings downgraded; GM has had to fight off rumors of an impending bankruptcy; and Cerberus, Chrysler's principal owner, has been hammered by a new round of cutbacks. Ellen Hughes Cromwick, Ford's chief economist, said this week that the unfolding credit crunch has a had a palpable impact on the carmakers. "The credit crunch could persist for some time," she said. "That's a situation that adds a lot of uncertainty to the market...
...brink of starvation. Saving rural Zimbabwe from starvation will require a political settlement that restarts the economy and restores international assistance, but President Robert Mugabe remains locked in a stalemate over how to share power with MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai. Tsvangirai won more votes than Mugabe in the first round vote on March 29, but boycotted the runoff in the face of violent intimidation. South African-mediated talks have sought to create a unity government, but the two sides cannot agree on how to allocate power within such an arrangement. (See photos of Political Tension in Zimbabwe here...