Word: vermonters
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Members of the mainstream press covering former Vermont Gov. Howard B. Dean’s presidential run apparently didn’t sleep through their high school English classes, where they learned that compelling stories always follow arcs from beginning to climax to denouement. Being good pupils, they constructed a now-familiar narrative around the candidate, first building him into an outsider-turned-frontrunner and then relentlessly tearing him down. The storyline bore little relationship to the facts of the campaign, but after reporters and editors decided that the peak had been reached—roughly ten months before...
...demise of former Vermont Governor Dean’s campaign—which Dean made official in a concession speech Wednesday—has left thousands of college-age staffers, volunteers, and supporters in the lurch. Harvard students are no exception...
After being electronically “poked” by Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., and Sen. John R. Edwards, D-N.C., former Vermont Gov. Howard B. Dean will poke them both back—but refuse to confirm either one as a friend...
...story is almost unbelievable, his fall as rapid and unexpected as the meteoric rise that took him from a New England state government to the front pages of magazines and newspapers across the nation. And though former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean dropped out of the race for the White House this week, he differs from many past failed presidential candidates in that his legend will likely live on in American political lore for generations. I, however, will remember Dean for something other than his brief tenure as the frontrunner for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination. For in one of those...
...will simply fade away. Just as Job had expected to, Dean will march off “to the land of deepest night, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness” (Job 10: 21-22). In other words, he will return to Vermont and resume the mundane existence that had been so suddenly and deliberately interrupted by this mean cosmic joke...