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Hart cannot win enough delegates to take the nomination on the first round. Even in a best-case scenario-doubling his 886 delegates-he falls short. His aim instead is to deny a first-round victory to Mondale. At the convention, Hart then hopes to win over uncommitted delegates, woo others away from Mondale, and get still other Mondale delegates thrown out. "It's now a three-ring circus," says Caddell. "The primaries, the delegate battle, and the rules and credentials fights." Hart claims that some 500 Mondale delegates should be disqualified because they were chosen with the help...
...coming across the paragraph in the publication of a Harvard undergraduate organization left me shocked and sickened I believe the Harvard campus is, by and large, a good place for women and have always felt comfortable here. So it was sharply disillusioning to discover that any Harvard club would woo its members to a party with the promise of a "bevy of slobbering bovines fresh for the slaughter," ensuring that all will have the chance to "slice into one of these meaty but grateful heifers...
...room, the film sets itself up as a voice of patriotism and loyalty. Although Hopper defies his crotchety piano teacher by playing jazz instead of classics and hangs out with the shiftless and disreputable Nicky, the director emphasizes Hooper's innate goodness. He doesn't put on airs to woo the snooty upper class preps who ridicule him at the bowling alley and even when he discovers that Caddie is an upper class "Gatsby girl," he takes pride in his humble, yet honorable, origins...
...first time in campaign history, all the organizations have women in high-ranking positions-and the candidates have been quick to publicize that fact in an attempt to woo the support of the nation's powerful women's groups. No women are campaign managers or directors, but more than ever hold key secondtier posts. At a recent debate, the hopefuls went so far as to tick off their prominent female staff members. "I'll see you one press secretary, and raise you a treasurer," one candidate joked...
WHILE Presidential candidates from both political camps try to woo an often disinterested electorate, they are often oblivious to a group of avid onlookers--foreign governments who recognize the outcome of the U.S. Presidential race could significantly affect their own futures...