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...harder to come by than a year ago, when Harvard defeated Penn 3-0 at Jordan Field to close out the season. This year’s Penn team, which returned seven starters and its two leading scorers, had the advantage of home field. The Quakers play on dry turf, which slowed the Crimson’s attack and forced the team to utilize one-touch passing instead of dribbling...
...hope springs eternal, so does Nash's verse on fresh turf, For it is all over the Internet, in blithe disregard of copyright law, for any kid today to surf. A generation of websters can splash In his odes to the hippopotamus and the socialite and good dogs and diaper rash. Today's 10-year-olds can discover for themselves my long-ago pash: To put aside the weeping and gnashing of teeth and instead luxuriate in the reaping and teething of Nash...
...Kirk's candidacy poses a real threat of Election Day humiliation for the President on his home turf. Some polls this summer have given Kirk an edge, and all show an extremely tight race. He has mobilized heavy political backing from Dallas' conservative business elite and raised more money than Cornyn in Bush's old Dallas ZIP code. One contributor is Bush's own media consultant, Mark McKinnon, who counts Kirk among his former clients...
...winter proposals became a victim of the transition process, turf wars and time spent on the pet policies of new top officials. The Bush Administration chose to institute its own "policy review process" on the terrorist threat. Clarke told TIME that the review moved "as fast as could be expected." And Administration officials insist that by the time the review was endorsed by the Bush principals on Sept. 4, it was more aggressive than anything contemplated the previous winter. The final plan, they say, was designed not to "roll back" al-Qaeda but to "eliminate" it. But that delay came...
...Kirk's candidacy poses a real threat of Election Day humiliation for the President on his home turf. Some polls this summer have given Kirk an edge, and all show an extremely tight race. He has mobilized heavy political backing from Dallas' conservative business elite and raised more money than Cornyn in Bush's old Dallas zip code. One contributor is Bush's own media consultant, Mark McKinnon, who counts Kirk among his former clients...