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Serving at 6-7 down--a match point against him--Sampras serve-and-volleyed, a surprising strategy for someone barely mobile. When Pete stretched impossibly far to volley a cross-court passing shot from Corretja for a winner, the place erupted...
...with the winner of this year's Ivy Championship earning an automatic bid to the show, what better time to get back its rhythm than four days before the start of the Ivy schedule...
...noted by historian Peter Wood of Duke University. In 1820 James Monroe beat John Quincy Adams so badly that Adams received but one electoral vote out of the 232 cast. Then, as now, voter turnout was low. Then, as now, the country was prosperous and at peace. The winner was an incumbent Southerner who represented the slightly more popular and liberal of the two parties, used his first term to defuse social and regional antagonisms and supported banks and business in a way that made it impossible for the conservative Federalists to rally opposition to his policies. Thus the first...
VICTOR SNYDER Democrat--Arkansas 2nd In a classic dewey beats truman scenario, the media projected Snyder's opponent as the winner, though Snyder came back to win this open seat by a 4% margin in the final tally...
...former associate editor of Jet Magazine, Gilliam also served as president of the National Associate of Black Journalists. She is the winner of numerous awards, including Columbia Graduate School of Journalism Alumni of the Year and the Capital Press Club's Journalist of the Year...