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This is why, in the wake of McCain's 8-point win in Michigan and 24-point rout in his home state of Arizona, Bush was repositioning himself so acrobatically. Having borrowed McCain's sneakers in South Carolina, where he ran as a Reformer with Results, last week he headed to Southern California to put some compassion back into his conservatism. His first event in the state was at an inner-city faith-based social-service organization of the kind he became known for touting last summer. "We have to keep talking to voters about the Governor's successful record...
...Last Saturday was the most singularly successful day I've ever had at a racetrack. After scouring the Internet for solid handicaps, I stumbled across a site called horsestats.com. For $50 a week, Geoffrey Rout, genius that he is, gives you one mortal lock. Since we are "problem gamblers," and since anything that expensive must, we reasoned, be worth something, we subscribed. As I forsook Lawton, the oracle of my childhood, I knew how Judas felt...
...Saturday, Rout's play was Unshaded, a 3-year-old who won a maiden special weight race Jan. 29 at Gulfstream and bumped up in class to this $36,000 allowance race. Rout was positively prescient in his analysis: "I like the way that No. 9 Unshaded broke his maiden over seven furlongs last time, and think that the extra three-sixteenths of a mile will suit him perfectly. There is every reason to be confident that he will improve here. I would say that if he goes off at 5-2 or a little better he is worth taking...
...Friday, Harvard (4-1, 2-0 EIVA) won its second straight league match by decimating the Eastern Mennonite Royals (3-3, 1-1 EIVA) in a three-game rout (15-5, 15-10, 15-8) that lasted a little over an hour...
...Fine mess you've gotten me into, Weaver," snapped McCain in jest to the 40-year-old political director who first went to McCain in February 1997 to persuade him to run. As word of McCain's rout spread, family members drifted into his suite; children ran between the sofas and chairs, grazing the tables, spilling their Shirley Temples. McCain's daughter Sidney spun youngest son Jimmy as if they were doing the lindy hop. When the networks finally called the race, Cindy's hands flew to her mouth, and her eyes filled; the aides let out a cheer. McCain...