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Senior Mason Brunnick led the pack and touched the wall in a decisive 9:28.86, over thirty seconds faster than the closest Cornell or Dartmouth swimmer...
Harvard then took a 1-2-3 finish in the 200-yard backstroke. Wurzbacher touched the wall first in 2:07.66 and was followed by juniors Justin Davidson and Evan Schindewolf in second and third, respectively. The Crimson used a completely different lineup in the event than it sent out on Saturday but still swept the top-three spots...
...McCain's former running mate promise to be as divisive as their author. Several news organizations got hold of the 413-page book - which landed Palin a reported $5 million advance - ahead of its release date; their assessments are decidedly mixed. Melanie Kirkpatrick, a former deputy editor of the Wall Street Journal's editorial page, says the book reveals "a prodigious worker capable of mastering complicated issues," while Michiko Kakutani, writing in the New York Times, sees "an eager player in the blame game, ungrateful to the McCain campaign." Two common observations: Palin reserves her most aggressive attacks for McCain...
Melanie Kirkpatrick, Wall Street Journal: "As a politician, she comes across as a prodigious worker capable of mastering complicated issues - not least the energy policies that matter so much to Alaska's economy - and of building bridges to Democrats...
Conservative kvetchers usually have a more serious bogeyman in mind: voters using dead people’s names, campaign workers coercing or bribing people into voting for their man—that sort of thing. But their evidence is almost always mere innuendo. Consider The Wall Street Journal’s John Fund, who leads a cottage industry of voter-fraud hyperventilators. The day before the election, Fund laughably tried to tie ACORN, that all-purpose conservative bugaboo, to anticipated wrong-doings in New Jersey: “Philly operatives associated in the past with ACORN may now be advising...