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...senior class. Physically and mentally, these veterans are ready to prove that Radcliffe is a world class team.The 2007-’08 season ended with a decisive victory in the petite finals at the NCAA Championships. The varsity eight battled to a three-second win over second-place Virginia, and the team finished in ninth place in the point tally. “We’ve been really successful these past years. I remember last year I watched them compete in the NCAAs after we had finished our team’s race [at Olympic training...
...consumer products. He had also been a corporate lawyer at the Boston-based firm Nutter, McClennen & Fish, LLP. Shore attended Duke as an undergraduate, where he studied psychology and political science. He also has a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the University of Virginia. In his time at Harvard, Shore has worked on improving the University’s budgeting process, and on implementing planning initiatives such as “the renewal and expansion of Harvard’s campus, the more intensive pursuit of cross-faculty academic collaborations, the consideration...
...elections in which black candidates saw solid leads shrink or vanish once voters cast their ballots. In 1983, Harold Washington escaped with a narrow win in Chicago's mayoral election after being projected a decisive victor. In 1989, Douglas Wilder held a nine-point lead on the eve of Virginia's gubernatorial election, and won by less than one percentage point. That same year, David Dinkins' 18-point lead in New York City's mayoral race evaporated in the voting booths, though he still eked out a nail-biter over Rudy Giuliani...
...study released by Harvard political scientist Daniel Hopkins offers a more nuanced historical view. Analyzing 133 gubernatorial and Senate races between 1989 and 2006, Hopkins says the Bradley effect-which he calls the "Wilder effect," after the Virginia governor-did exist, but petered out when racially charged issues were elbowed away from the political forefront: "As racialized rhetoric about welfare and crime receded from national prominence in the mid-1990s, so did the gap between polling and performance...
TIME recently gathered four presidential historians--George Mason University's Richard Norton Smith, Yale University's Beverly Gage, and Russell Riley and David Coleman of the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia--to discuss presidential temperament: what it is, who had it and how much it matters in the White House. An excerpt of their conversation...