Word: winningly
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PROVIDENCE, R.I.--Danny Clark threw for 231 yards and two touchdowns and running backs Jon Skinner and Nick Badalato added two scores apiece to give the Bruins (2-8-0, 2-5-0) the win...
...Dinkins has not done much -- beyond showing up -- to respond to that hope. After trouncing Koch, he seemed prepared to coast into city hall on the euphoria of his primary win. He glad-handed his way through the general election, underestimating the potent challenge Giuliani was mounting under the tutelage of media meister Roger Ailes. In the closing weeks of the race, Giuliani nearly overcame Dinkins' double-digit lead in the polls. Giuliani launched a subtle appeal to the fears of white voters and exploited widespread disgust with the corruption that plagued Koch's final term by raising troubling questions...
Wilder's wafer-thin win should have been all the more satisfying, for it underlines the extent of the racial barriers that he has surmounted. But in the topsy-turvy world of political analysis, this Virginia victory was measured against the unrealistically optimistic expectations raised by the pre-election surveys and as a result was somehow found wanting. According to the final CBS/New York Times exit polls, Wilder won an impressive 39% of the white vote. In 1988 Democratic primaries, Jackson never came close to this type of biracial mandate. Moreover, Wilder ran neck and neck with Coleman among...
NOTEBOOK: Crazy things continued to shake up the ECAC yesterday. Brown stunned Vermont, 3-0, to register its first win in more than a year. In other games, RPI outmuscled Yale, 8-6, Colgate disposed of St. Lawrence, 6-3, and Clarkson battled Cornell...
True Harvard Spirit: After hosting the yearly dinner with Bok at the New York Harvard Club, the University is providing its top donors with a chartered bus to take them to New Haven for The Game. And Harvard fundraising officers hope the Crimson will pull off a win this year because, as Vice President for Alumni Affairs and Development Fred L. Glimp '50 said recently, "Everybody likes working with a winner...