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...campaign plans a multimillion-dollar advertising blitz in South Carolina, New Mexico, Arizona and Oklahoma that will start this week and continue until those states hold their contests on Feb. 3. "Let's see who has the resources now to follow us," Trippi says. On a five-city swing through Iowa on Friday, Dean touted not a local poll but a Florida one showing him running only 8% behind Bush, despite the fact that he hasn't spent much time in the state. "It kind of puts the lie to the electability argument," he told reporters later...
...swing of the pendulum was halted and the Minutemen fell into their previous state of disarray. Desperate to reknot the score, UMass struggled to string together an effective attack, while Harvard returned to its aggressive play in the offensive zone, swarming the goal mouth and forcing several solid saves from Warner to keep his team close...
...predictability. Instead of learning the lesson that it's possible to get attention for doing what you have always done, the new crop of career revisionists is trying to get attention for doing what Tony Bennett has always done: sing standards. Robbie Williams sold millions crooning the classics with Swing When You're Winning in 2001; former teen angel Mandy Moore has a new standards album; even legendary cradle robber Rod Stewart has two. Standards are now perceived as the foolproof way for singers to flex their urbanity and be congratulated on their good taste while also appealing to those...
It’s the waffly, spineless centrists—not Dean—who would be hung out to dry by the Rove machine, and Gore’s endorsement reflects a recognition of that reality. He would know: His dull, centrist campaign, aimed at the swing voters upon whom the DLC is forever fixated, turned off three and a half million liberals, who flocked to Ralph Nader and handed the election to Bush. Are many on the left going to bother to schlep to the polls to vote for a Democrat who kowtowed to the President...
...increase their accessibility to first-years, Mahan and Blickstead say they plan to hold office hours and host study breaks, as well as swing by Annenberg to grab the occasional meal and chat with first-years...