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...thing is, though, that either team will have a decent show at winning Heps should the runners remain healthy. The women's team returns practically all of its top runners, while the men possess perhaps the league's best runner in junior captain Ian Carswell...
...hours later for...more baseball. As a coach for his son Bo's Little League team, Wulf has sometimes had to be on the field at 7:45 a.m. He thus can be excused for botching the occasional signal. "There was one time when the runner was coming into third base from second and I neglected to tell him to stop," Wulf says. "He ran right over third base and into the opposing team's bench, where he was tagged...
...same tactics at play today. Every one of Dole's 1996 G.O.P. opponents is swiping at the front runner with increasing ferocity, especially Phil Gramm, the Texas Senator who staged a surprising tie at the Aug. 19 Iowa straw poll most everyone expected Dole to win handily. Of course the Iowa ballot was phony; anyone who bought a ticket could vote, even non-Iowans, and some confessed to having voted more than once. It was still a test of organizational strength, but it was only the first part of a two-pronged strategy: rough Dole up and then cause...
...wise, however, to remember Republican history. As the real voting draws nearer, the front runner invariably loses some market share, and the electorate expresses its dissatisfaction with the field. And then the front runner captures the prize anyway, as the G.O.P.'s leaders have done ever since the party began holding primaries almost 50 years...
What is it about New Hampshire, and how do you go about winning there? Let Dole explain it. "People pay attention to the first of anything," Dole said earlier this year. "They pay even more attention if you're seen as the front runner, so if you stumble in New Hampshire, you're dead. Other folks become 'hot.' It's as simple as that...