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When the Crimson run the option to the weak side, away from the tight end, they elect to option the defensive end. This is a poor tactic...

Author: By Mackie Dougherty, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Football Notebook: The Other Offensive Miscues | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

CANDIDATE Jeremy Friedbaum (I) FOR Governor of Utah TACTIC Went on a hunger strike from Sept. 8 to Oct. 18 SOUND BITE "At least I don't look like Gandhi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Running On Empty | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

...CANDIDATE] Thomas Wesson (R) [FOR] Constable, Dallas County, Texas [TACTIC] Listed his name on the ballot as Tomas Eduardo Wesson to appeal, opponents say, to Latino voters [SOUND BITE] "I go by Tomas. I just put down what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Running On Empty | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

...Gore has done everything he can to dodge this tactic, principally the questionable tightrope act of declaring that he is "his own man" and in the process both distancing himself from Clinton and the eight-year boom that has accompanied his presidency. This left the Bush team with one key objective. To redefine the popular image of Al Gore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This May Be a Pre-Mortem of the 2000 Campaign | 11/3/2000 | See Source »

...first heard this get-out-and-vote rhetoric in seventh grade, when my civics teacher told our class that, if we didn't vote, we'd forfeit our right to complain. There is no more effective scare tactic on a class filled with 13-year-old Jewish boys, other than to mess with our Bar Mitzvah money. But voting so that you can whine is probably not what the framers had in mind. I don't remember seeing the phrase "bitching and moaning" anywhere in the Bill of Rights. Besides, voting actually endangers your right to complain because you might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Vote | 10/23/2000 | See Source »

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