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...hate predictions. Most pundits, like most pollsters, get their information by looking in the rearview mirror. But let me give 2008 a try. The winner will be the candidate who comes closest to this model: a politician who refuses to be a "performer," at least in the current sense. Who speaks but doesn't orate. Who never holds a press conference on or in front of an aircraft carrier. Who doesn't assume the public is stupid or uncaring. Who believes in at least one major idea, or program, that has less than 40% support in the polls...
...million Prize money to be paid to each French Open singles champion this year, the first time the women's winner at the tennis tournament will receive as much...
...dusted Rice by a 5-2 margin in a non-conference tune-up at the Beren Tennis Center. Harvard (13-6, 2-0 Ivy) will carry a three-game winning streak into Friday’s match with Penn—who also boasts an umblemished Ivy record. The winner will likely end up with the league’s automatic NCAA Tournament bid. “If we don’t win the Ivies,” said junior Elsa O’Riain, who did not lose during the weekend in singles or doubles...
...margins as the boats began their final strokes.And after both boats had stopped after the finish, neither knowing who had won, the same Brown crowd that had sparked the boat’s surge in the final sprint let out a celebratory yell when officials ruled the Bears the winner. A camera used at the finish settled the debate, and Harvard left Providence with a blemished record.“We didn’t know what to expect,” Henderson said. “Our coach has always told us to be prepared to have a tough...
Glück, a former U.S. poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner, read two long poems and two short poems for 30 minutes to an audience mostly comprising members of the Cambridge community that filled Beren Hall’s approximately 170 seats...