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...vote turned out well for the ECAC, which days ago learned that the University of Vermont would become a member of Hockey East for the 2005-2006 season...
...want to understand how Howard Dean thinks, he says, it helps to look at the way he and his doctor-wife Judith Steinberg treated patients in their family practice back in Vermont. "She's very methodical. She'll exhaust all the possibilities until she gets to the one that's the most likely," he explains. "I'm intuitive, and I jump steps ahead. Part of what gets me in trouble on the stump is that I shorthand things. I know what I'm thinking, but I don't say every word of it. I was that way as a doctor...
Dean says his record in Vermont will be his armor against the Bush campaign's plans to paint him as some kind of fuzzy-headed radical (though his decision to seal some of his records is the subject of a court fight). But one question is whether voters will care more about what he did in Montpelier than what he says he will do in the White House. Dean's proudest boast is that he balanced 11 budgets in a row, and he promises to bring that same tightfistedness to Washington. But take a hard look at what...
...Vermont, Dean had a reputation for having a physician's willingness to deliver bad news without varnish or hesitation. But it is difficult to find much hard talk in his program now, apart from his plan to repeal the Bush tax cuts, which in any case pleases his Democratic-primary audience. Back in the mid-1990s, he advocated curbing the growth of Medicare and putting "Social Security back on the table." Now he says he would use the bulk of the savings from repealing the tax cuts for a huge new expansion of health care, that he could balance...
...rights that go with marriage? How much appeal will Dean have beyond Internet-cafe society and the liberal salons of the two coasts? As he stumped in South Carolina last week, Dean rarely missed an opportunity to introduce himself archly as a "guy from the North," "a Vermont Yankee" or "this environmentalist, Birkenstock-wearing guy from Vermont." The joke on himself is evidence of self-confidence, but he has yet to show how mass-market he can go. In a state where as much as half the Democratic electorate is likely to be African American, the crowds that showed...