Word: underdog
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...attempts to downplay expectations, Senator Barack Obama is heading into a weekend that will probably make him look like anything but the underdog. Democrats in four more states are scheduled to cast their ballots, and while they will not be the deciding factors in what remains a virtual dead heat between him and Hillary Clinton, the contests could give Obama an extra boost heading into next week's important Potomac primaries of Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. On a conference call with key Clinton donors on Thursday, the campaign's senior strategist Mark Penn admitted as much...
...This is not to say that content and interests between underdog magazines and the Big Three do not occasionally overlap. The Advocate, for example, is only one of four different on-campus publications to which aspiring writers or poets may submit. Tuesday Magazine, along with the Gamut, an annual poetry journal, distinguishes itself with an effort at diversity...
...Though interested readers may find similarities between the content covered in various underdog magazines and what appears in the pages of the Big Three, those looking to contribute to the publications are quick to discover a striking contrast between the two spheres. The abandonment of the “comp,” or requisite trial period for prospective members, presents a notable distinction...
...Despite this long list of hurdles, hazards, and hardships, underdog art publications have found their niches on campus. Unlike the Harvard of 1866, today’s campus is characterized by diversity—and that extends not only to its undergraduate population, but to the words those students print...
...chorus that cannot be ignored; that will not be deterred; that will ring out across this land as a hymn that will heal this nation, repair this world, and make this time different than all the rest." At least in his prose, Obama doesn't sound like an underdog...