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With $23 million in the bank, Romney blew past "front runner" Rudy Giuliani ($15 million) and nearly doubled John McCain's take. The McCain campaign's excuse that he won't "officially" announce his candidacy until April 25 required that no one notice he has been running for eight years and was the anointed favorite until about a month ago. McCain used to joke that the media was his base; there were pundits who loved his willingness to say the unpopular thing--as long as it was unpopular with his party and not with them. Now the conventional wisdom...
...process works: Idol is the most reliable hit-launching platform in show biz. It dominates TV; rival networks refer to it as a "tsunami." Idol Season 1 champ Kelly Clarkson has sold more than 8 million albums; Season 4 winner Carrie Underwood, 5 million; and even Season 2 runner-up Clay Aiken, more than 4 million. Its alumni have won Grammys (Clarkson), Country Music Awards (Underwood) and even an Academy Award (Jennifer Hudson). To paraphrase Hudson's Oscar-winning lyric, Idol is telling you it is not going. And anyone in the hitmaking business should be listening to what...
...year, the Harvard sailing team took advantage of the training during the time off, competing in four regattas over the weekend and finishing no lower than fifth in any event. The Crimson earned the squad’s second first-place finish of the spring, in addition to a runner-up finish and as a fourth-place nod.“We had our practices all week at Navy,” freshman skipper Drew Robb said. “I’ve been sailing non-stop for the past week. We?...
Twice Wright State reduced the Crimson lead to one, but could never tie it up. In the bottom of the seventh, the Raiders’ Allison Cox led off with a walk, but Harvard sophomore catcher Hayley Bock fired a quick throw down to first to pick off pinch runner Jacqueline Macy...
...Radcliffe lightweight and heavyweight crews began their campaigns this weekend to return to the top of the women’s ranks. Facing last year’s national runner-up Georgetown and an undefeated No. 3-ranked Brown squad, both crews had opportunities to reassert their claims as one of the best. Unfortunately for the Black and White, both teams fell just short. While dominating three of four races at the Class of 2004 Cup in Washington D.C., the lightweights failed to take the most important one—the first varsity heat—and, as a result...