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MCCAINIACS Because McCain has run before, he has a large national base from which to build a campaign. After Bush and Cheney, the Arizona Senator is the party's best-known face and has a proven appeal to Democrats and independents. "John McCain is positioned to be the front runner. Period," says Scott Reed, who managed Bob Dole's 1996 presidential...
Already, potential candidates for 2008 are being handicapped. Kerry could argue that he deserves another chance, but not since they renominated Adlai Stevenson in 1956 have the Democrats thought--mistakenly, in Stevenson's case--that they could make a winner out of the previous election's runner-up. Early attention will be focused squarely on New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. "If she wants to run, she will completely dominate the field," predicts Podesta, who admits, as a veteran of the Clinton White House, that he may not be totally objective. "In terms of fund raising, charisma, ideas and positioning...
Though Traugott has no plans as a distance-runner long-term (at Harvard, he was a mid-distance track runner), he is considering running in the next Boston marathon...
...runner's high? Davis pays his U.S. factory workers an average wage of $12 an hour, plus benefits, compared with 40¢ an hour for a worker in mainland China, where 76% of U.S. athletic footwear originates. The tax breaks Congress just passed for U.S. companies to keep manufacturing jobs at home amount to chump change given that gap. Overall, the U.S. footwear industry has shed nearly 200,000 jobs since the early 1970s, leaving fewer than 21,000. More to the point: What teenager clamoring for Air Jordans really cares where the shoe is stitched...
Harvard’s next best runner placed a distant 45th—freshman Ryan Hafer put in a good personal effort of 26:12.9 to finish third for the Crimson...