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...attributed the popular recognition of Lewis and Clark today to the pair's superior public-relations people...
...goal away from sneaking, in spite of itself, into the NCAA Tournament. Memories of that team kindle hope in even this cynic's heart for a similar run to glory this season--and as this year's voyage for regular-season honors foundered in the face of teams with superior reserves of both talent and luck, it is understandable why this team might have begun to think the same way. Even with tonight's additional hurdle still to be overcome...
Their fortunes changed after October 1934. Harassed by superior Nationalist forces, the Red Army of Jiangxi joined the arduous Long March, threading in roundabout ways through the hinterland until it straggled to the caves of Yan'an in northwestern Shaanxi province a year and 7,500 miles later. The retreat cost the lives of more than 90,000 troops, but sheer survival, along with the self-sacrifice the soldiers displayed toward civilians en route, made heroes of the communists. Mao's guerrilla strategy had by then made him the movement's unchallenged leader...
...exempt from federal laws that prohibit fund-raising in public buildings. Brushing off a report in The Washington Post on Sunday that he had strong-armed contributors, the Vice President said that he had actually felt "uncomfortable" pressing DNC supporters for donations. But he added that faced with superior Republican campaign financing, he had played "by the rules as they exist" so that what he "believed in" ? namely, the Administration's policies ? could be carried out in a second Clinton term. Maybe so, but the President apparently was more cautious: he reportedly refused to solicit campaign contributions from the Oval...
...What contest?" you may now be wondering. Quite honestly, I'm not sure. These newcomers to the wintry fun seemed to be driven by the conviction that they must prove themselves superior snowball warriors. They constructed icy cores for better momentum. They recruited strong-armed friends from the baseball team. They actually organized themselves into military-style formations in order to prosecute their attack. I am not ashamed to admit that on that chilled night, my unprepared friends and I were utterly vanquished. Our supply lines must have been too long...