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DIED When he became President Jimmy Carter's chief of staff in 1979, Hamilton Jordan--then 34--was one of the youngest ever to ascend to the post. Jordan began working for Carter during his first gubernatorial campaign and earned a spot in the future President's inner circle by crafting an audacious blueprint for winning the Oval Office. After Carter's election, Jordan served as a key adviser on both domestic and international affairs, counseling Carter on the Panama Canal treaty and the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis. He died at age 63 after a long battle with cancer...
...West Virginia have helped her narrow his lead in the popular-vote count to a virtual tie. She may even finish the primary season with more votes, if you count those from the disputed primaries in Michigan and Florida. That gives her bragging rights for the No. 2 spot or for other demands. "This is about making her pile of chips bigger so she can use them to bargain with when the voting is done," says a longtime backer, who also believes she is making a play for a place on the ticket...
...valiantly fight on in the remaining contests of Montana, South Dakota and Puerto Rico, she will soon join the ranks of other Democratic also-rans, both from this cycle and cycles past, who lacked the money, staying power and delegate totals needed to keep their dreams for the top spot alive. Closing down a campaign is an unpleasant and, if money is a problem, sometimes abrupt process; and to many campaign operatives, a painfully familiar...
...start with its core competence, operating systems. Vista is a disaster and Windows 7, its successor, is two years away. By then, the market for desktop/laptop operating systems will be smaller, perhaps dramatically so. The sweet spot is steadily moving away from "computers" to mobile devices - phones, mainly - and Microsoft's mobile operating system has never captured anyone's imagination, let alone the market. (In its first quarter of existence last year, Apple's iPhone overtook Windows Mobile...
...meter dash—the San Diego native quickly made up for it with a downright win in the second event. Bounding 6.89 meters in the long jump, Lewis out-leapt the second-place finisher from UConn by more than a meter.Lewis next logged a fifth spot in the third event, putting the shot 11.91 meters, then cleared 1.93 meters to secure fourth in the decathlon high jump.The Currier House resident went on to throw a sixth-best, 35.20-meter discus en route to his eighth-place finish.“He competed awesome,” Harvard Coach Jason...