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...required a slight suspension of disbelief to watch NBC's Meet the Press Sunday morning as Tom Brokaw opened with, and kept coming back to, McCain's weakness in the polls in his contest against Barack Obama for the White House. "Listen, I don't have the most encouraging news for you today from the NBC News/Mason-Dixon poll," Brokaw began, as he sat with McCain in Waterloo, Iowa. "Here in Iowa, it now shows that Obama has a lead of 11 points, 51% to 40%." McCain's reply - "Those polls have consistently shown me much further behind than we actually...
...voice when he says it, 'Toot,'" says Alice Dewey, a University of Hawaii professor emeritus of anthropology, who is a family friend and was the graduate studies advisor to Obama's mother Stanley Ann Dunham. "They are very close. [His grandmother] has always been a small, slight woman, but tough. She held his nose to the grindstone, but also lavished him with love...
...bread, now they're just buying a cup of tea." Heap, who opened the shop less than a year ago, has dropped her prices 25% and let some staff go. She remains upbeat about the future, but with Canary Wharf on her doorstep, she concedes, "I do feel a slight wave of fear...
Harvard managed three more shots—one on net—but failed to bring the score any closer. The Eagles finished the game with a slight edge in shots, 13-10, and tied in penalty corners...
...Stone to make a difficult glove save. The Big Red appeared to score a few minutes before halftime when Kantarian buried a cross behind Stone. However, the referees conferred and determined that the pass struck a player’s foot before the shot. At halftime, Cornell had a slight edge in shots, 6-5, and corners, 3-1. The Big Red owned the second half. Seven minutes into the action, Horn was wide open and received the ball in the middle of the circle. Stone rushed out to challenge the shot and blocked the initial attempt...