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...After the campaign imploded earlier this year, staffers would use the "Fortress New Hampshire" scenario to explain to reporters - as well as voters - why, after all the media carnage, fund-raising shortfalls and staff overhauls, a McCain nomination was still possible. A win in New Hampshire would undermine Mitt Romney's organization, they said, and set up a showdown in South Carolina between Rudy Giuliani and McCain, where McCain should have an advantage with social conservatives. Then a McCain victory in South Carolina would, at the very least, make it a fair fight that McCain could...
That's a disturbing scenario for the Bush Administration, which was counting on the Musharraf-Bhutto deal to keep Pakistan stable. Many in Washington worry that the general is getting progressively heavy-handed and dictatorial. "Musharraf is digging in," says Stephen Cohen, a South Asia expert and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. "He is either suicidal or totally ignorant of the situation." Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have both telephoned Musharraf and urged him to ease up. Rice is sending her deputy, John D. Negroponte, to Islamabad to try to hold the general to his promise...
...decades from now, actual supply may be half that rate. This conclusion aptly portrays the potential magnitude of the energy ditch we are now in. It is impossible to calculate the odds of this supply-demand imbalance happening, but prudent planning argues that the world should assume the bleaker scenario. Then it follows that a global plan to use oil more rationally must be urgently developed and implemented...
...It’s not a perfect scenario,” Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91 told me. “Our guys will be down for the Harvard-Yale football game and I’m sure Cornell’s band and fans will be here in full effect...
...defensive line all year, said that it was fitting that the culmination of the senior class’s efforts will take place next week in New Haven, when the two squads—both with undefeated conference records—battle for the league crown in a scenario that hasn’t been seen since 1968.“I’m so proud of the senior class,” Bagdis said. “I think it was a great team effort the entire way, and there’s no better...