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...only the candidate but also the top strategist. So far, the Clinton camp has been remarkably free of the public backbiting that afflicts most campaigns, though there are internal turf battles between longtime loyalists and the Democratic hired guns recruited for the race. But, more important, there is scant evidence that the Clinton campaign has developed a game plan bold enough to regain momentum in the most volatile and unorthodox presidential race in recent U.S. history...
Harvard's top player, freshman Erika deLone, rolled to her 29th singles win this season, crushing Monica Catrina 6-1, 6-1. Including the two games she lost in yesterday's match, deLone has dropped a scant four games (yes, games) in Ivy competition this year...
...Ivies will be the first tournament for Radcliffe this spring. As such, the Black and White knows scant little about its opposition this weekend...
...think they are doing their job. Others like to see their prose in 96-point type ("The Citizen Kane of alcoholic clown movies") or work for magazines that savor free publicity in a movie ad ("Peter Travers, Rolling Stone"). But in their little black hearts, ! critics know they have scant individual power. "In order to effectively buy critics," Schickel says, "a studio would have to buy 10 or 20 of them...
That was quite a feat for TV's newest overachiever, who rose through the Today-show ranks in a scant three years. "He is creative, has wonderful news judgment and wants to win," says NBC News president Michael Gartner. "And he happens to be 26." Couric also dismisses any notion that Zucker's youth poses a problem. "He's very intelligent, and he has a real respect for history -- even if he wasn't around when it was made...