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...players to graduation and were starting the season with a particularly young team,” Cahow said. “Nobody else thought that we’d be capable of accomplishing all the great things we did this season.”Harvard set the tone with a 4-1 win over Cornell on January 4, and from then on, it seemed that nothing could stop the Crimson.The team rattled off 21 straight victories and became the first team to complete a perfect ECAC regular season and sweep the conference playoffs along the way.It was another win over...
...will be faced with a strong opposition offensive; politically the situation calls for a vigorous counter-attack. Signs of this were seen in the “kick-off” speeches by presidential Assistant Sherman Adams and Senator Barry Goldwater last month which lambasted the Democrats in a tone not heard since...
...chairman, and holds the prospect that others will follow them out the door. Behind the scenes, the campaign seems to be searching for stability. In mid-May, McCain sought the counsel of former adviser Mike Murphy, who suggested, among other things, that McCain and his surrogates soften the tone of their attacks on Obama. To reassure fund raisers, the campaign also held a conference call making clear that everything was under control, despite Loeffler's departure...
...Start with President George W. Bush, whose deep unpopularity has set the tone for the campaign. In the late 1970s, the public came to regard Carter as a failed President, and his failure colored attitudes toward his party for more than a decade. Republicans tied Democrat after Democrat to the stagflation and foreign policy weakness of that era. Now Republicans worry that perceptions of Bush are going to hurt them for a generation...
...that's the case, they can take heart: Cannes award winner Three Monkeys is an engrossing tale of an Istanbul family torn apart by their secrets. In tone, if not style, it is a departure for Ceylan and has even been described as a thriller, albeit a meditative one. "Hopefully the Cannes charm might coax viewers into giving Ceylan a chance," says film critic Emrah Guler. And if that's not enough to get Turkish moviegoers to the theaters, the director stands in good company, with the likes of Woody Allen, of filmmakers embraced by the arty French but neglected...