Word: runner
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Saturday, with each team racing five freshmen. The youngsters held their ground just fine, placing 10th out of 19 teams on the women’s side and 11th among 19 men’s squads. On the women’s side, the large field of 206 runners encouraged a conservative start for the young Crimson athletes, but all the runners finished strong. The team was paced by freshman Cara Sprague, who finished 47th in 23:27. Shortly behind was fellow rookie Meghan Houser, who ended up 53rd after finishing in 23:52, and a trio of freshman...
...He’s going to be that Ryan Tyler type, an open field runner who will probably break a few long plays before the year is over,” Mazza says...
...appeared at a convenient moment for the Giuliani campaign. For the first time since the former New York mayor entered the G.O.P. race in early February, his status as his party's front-runner in national polls had begun to slip. The logic against a Giuliani victory - that he's too out of step with the Republican rank and file on social issues to win the nomination - seemed to be taking hold just as Fred Thompson officially entered the race. Giuliani needed to change the dynamic of the campaign, to get G.O.P. primary voters to focus on his general electability...
...paid speeches to corporate clients. (Citing schedule conflicts, Giuliani eventually quit the group without ever attending a meeting. His campaign now says he resigned because he was planning to run for President and didn't want to create a conflict.) "The goal is to demonstrate that the Republican front-runner has an enormous problem when it comes to the big issue facing the country - the war in Iraq," says MoveOn's Pariser. "And since Giuliani chose to insert himself into this story, we thought it was important to get out the fact that he bailed out on the [Iraq Study...
...President with a candor they rarely show on the campaign trail. "It is unacceptable for [Ahmadinejad], who refuses to renounce and end his own country's support of terrorism, to visit the site of the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil in our nation's history," said Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton. Republican candidate Rudy Giuliani - who was New York City mayor at the time of the attacks - thundered: "This is a man who has made threats against America and Israel, is harboring bin Laden's son and other al-Qaeda leaders, is shipping arms to Iraqi insurgents...