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...with a scarlet H-Y. Have I really missed so much?A quick polling of some friends revealed mixed results.“Best experience I had at Harvard last year,” declares Walt, now a sophomore. He describes the final play of the 2005 triple-overtime triumph in New Haven, after which he rushed from the stands, faked out a security guard, and “dance[d] on Eli’s field.”“It felt,” Walt recalls, “like glory just had sex with...
...smug look on his face, nose in the air, talking about how voters told the Bush administration exactly what it could do with its policies? That’s a Democrat. Then there’s the woman sitting with her head in her hands, bemoaning the now imminent triumph of the terrorists over the land of the free. She’s obviously a Republican...
...moment there it looked as if incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was making the mistake every pragmatic Democrat feared: putting soft-hearted personal allegiance ahead of cold-eyed political calculation. The first key decision she made since the Democrats' triumph in last week's elections was to back John Murtha, the anti-war hero of the left, in what seemed an impossible battle against Maryland moderate, Steny Hoyer, for the number two position in the House Democratic leadership, majority leader. And it wasn't looking good...
That, of course, is exactly what some in Washington are afraid of. Ortega's turn-back-the-clock triumph has rekindled memories of Washington's cold war obsession with Nicaragua, which embroiled the U.S. in a bloody guerrilla campaign and nearly doomed the Reagan presidency. Although Nicaragua, a nation of 5.5 million, is one of the poorest countries in the western hemisphere, the prospect of an Ortega restoration prompted the Bush Administration to threaten to cut off more than $200 million in total aid to the country and moved cold warriors like former U.S. Marine Lieut. Colonel Oliver North...
...anticipation of Dawson’s triumph neared, comparisons between the two running backs began to sound like, well, a broken record...