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...There are plenty of reasons for Gonzales' problems on Capitol Hill. He's considered a Texas outsider who never made an effort to build relationships there. That's fine when you're in a position of strength, says one top Senate Republican aide. But "when times get tough now, we're not there for him because he doesn't have the Capitol Hill connections...
...Tsang's boosters say that the best is yet to come, and point to his great strength: he's popular. With approval ratings consistently in the mid-60s, Tsang does not lack for support. "He's pretty good," says Johnny Lau, 35, an advertising worker taking a cigarette break beneath a campaign billboard for Alan Leong. In Mongkok, on the Kowloon side of Hong Kong harbor-and one of the most densely populated tracts of land on the planet-Rex Lau, 37, who is working in a bicycle-repair shop, echoes the sentiment. "Donald Tsang is doing okay," he allows...
...over South Florida, the Harvard men’s tennis team maintained its momentum, but fell, 6-1, against No. 3 Virginia in a match where the score did not reflect the close matches that characterized Crimson play. “The team showed some strength,” senior co-captain Scott Denenberg said. “Gideon [Valkin] had a close match, Ashwin [Kumar] had a good win, I had a close match, Dan [Nguyen] had a close match. A few of those flip-flop or we win a doubles point, and the match could have gone...
...large bids into the competition, two for each weapon in both men’s and women’s. Pensler received the top at-large bid in the women’s foil. Although this gives Harvard a slightly better chance at achieving a second title, given the strength of the squads with 12-man rosters—St. John’s, Columbia, and Penn State—it is likely the Crimson fencers will be competing for individual rather than team titles. Junior captain and saber fencer Samantha Parker was also hoping to have her name added...
...What draws conservatives to Giuliani, though, are his other qualities: the leadership and strength he showed as New York City's mayor on 9/11; his record transformation of a crumbling, crime-ridden city into a safe and clean one; and the need for that kind of toughness in a dangerous world. Giuliani is talking to conservatives now in a language they want to hear. He promises that whatever his personal views, the judges he appoints as President would be "strict constructionists" in the mold of Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and John Roberts, which is generally understood to mean against...