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...imagine Hillary Clinton actually giving up her quest for the presidency? Anyone who heard her proclaim "full-speed onto the White House" on Tuesday night and back that up with her declaration Wednesday that "I'm staying in this race until there's a nominee" will find it difficult to visualize what a Clinton concession would look like. She and her husband have been the Democratic establishment for the past 16 years and they have not conceded defeat since he lost the Arkansas governorship in 1980. And she has so recently found an effective political voice, sounding a populist trumpet...
...that she would ever admit to such harsh realities. "Thank you, Indiana," she declared just before 11 p.m. on Tuesday night, at a time when most news organizations still considered the race too close to call. "It's full speed onto the White House." For a moment, it seemed, even she had embraced the audacity of hope...
...certainly makes it appear so. Before New Hampshire apple growers, she speaks of apple subsidies. At a North Carolina train station, she promises high-speed rail. In southern Indiana, she talks up clean coal. She tells college kids that she will get them lower student loan rates, the sick that she will provide universal health care, and the poor that they will be favored more in the tax code. She even promises new federally funded scientific breakthroughs to cure afflictions like diabetes and autism...
...second 1000 meters, however, the momentum was Harvard’s for the taking, and the Crimson took it all. Harvard sliced the six-seat margin to two in the third 500 meters, taking further advantage of its strong base speed to set up a dramatic final 500 meters. As the two boats picked up the rating near the MIT boathouse, the Crimson increased the pressure and eventually pulled even with Northeastern in the final 100 meters of the race...
...seconds after them. “UCF in recent years has been up there when it comes to lightweight rowing,” Kharrazi said. “A few years ago [they] were very fast and in the final of IRAs, and [they] have shown a lot of speed since. We were expecting a tough race, and it turned out to be exactly that. I do anticipate they will be at IRAs, and they will be gunning for it, as will everybody else, and they’ve definitely proved that they are one of the top teams...