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...their season, the Bulldogs began delivering hard checks from the moment the puck dropped. Harvard responded in kind, as the two teams combined for 17 two-minute minors. Some of the biggest hits of the night, however, did not result in penalties. Late in the second period, Yale blueliner Tom Dignard checked freshman forward Doug Rogers into the edge of the scorer’s area, causing the glass separating the station from the Crimson bench to shatter. That was just one of many broken things on the night. A linesman had to leave the ice in the eighth minute...
...next President. The second time doesn't seem to be the charm for John Edwards. And Al Gore, who could be the nominee, still isn't a natural pol. There are serious Democrats who have won in red or purple states: former Governors Mark Warner of Virginia and Tom Vilsack of Iowa, Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana and Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico. But the first three have dropped out of the presidential race, and Richardson is polling at 2% and looks unlikely to make it into the top tier. Hillary is the least left-wing of the leading...
...Tom Vilsack used to say he lived the American dream. Given up for adoption at birth, Vilsack later went on to become governor of Iowa—and most recently a presidential candidate. Yet his dream ended in the same way that so many American Dreams tragically end: He didn’t have the money. Or, more precisely, he had $1.17 million some 22 or so months before the actual election but dropped out due to financial reasons. “It is money—and only money—the reason we are leaving today...
...have had to deal with federal investigators in a recently stepped-up effort to round up undocumented aliens. A bust at a Swift & Co. meatpacking plant in Greeley allegedly turned up several hundred illegals not long ago. That, coupled with the often scrambled remarks on immigration from Republican Congressman Tom Tancredo of Colorado, has strained what historically has been civil relations between Hispanics, now 20% of Colorado's 4.7 million population, and whites...
...Telling True Stories” is a collection of essays derived from the five annual Neiman Conferences on Narrative Journalism held from 2001 to 2006. Hosted by Harvard’s Neiman Foundation for Journalism, the conferences allowed practitioners of narrative journalism—including Tom Wolfe, Gay Talese, Susan Orlean, David L. Halberstam ’55, and Malcolm Gladwell—to offer their best or most concise advice to audiences of aspiring journalists. A full 91 of these presentations are collected in “Telling True Stories.” Contradicting and disagreeing with one another...