Andrew Mangino
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Deeply and completely
I deeply and completely accept myself.
Redemption
WASHINGTON — On November 22, 1963, the day John F. Kennedy fell minutes past noon, a man entered Liggett’s — a New Haven drug store — and exchanged seven pennies for a copy of the Register.
Kleeb loses battle for Neb.
LINCOLN, Neb. — Scott Kleeb GRD ‘06, the rancher turned Yale scholar turned politician, was decisively defeated Tuesday by former Nebraska Gov. Mike Johanns in the race to fill Chuck Hagel’s seat in the United States Senate.
A glimpse into America’s heartland
VENICE, Neb. — There is no waiting in line to vote in this quiet town of rolling cornfields and canals, but not for lack of interest. It may, rather, have something to do with its population count: zero.
Kleeb loses longshot bid for Senate
LINCOLN, Neb., 10:47 p.m. — Scott Kleeb GRD '06, the Yale scholar turned rancher turned politician, has been defeated by former Nebraska Gov. Mike Johanns in his bid to succeed Chuck Hagel in the United States Senate, according to network projections. At the Kleeb headquarters here, the news hardly generated a buzz, as Lisa Hannah, Kleeb's chair in Nebraska's 3rd Congressional District put it, "I'm kind of not surprised." Initial polls had placed Kleeb upwards of 20 points behind his opponent. Martha Davies, a volunteer from Lincoln, said she has always known after observing Kleeb's career at the Yale Graduate School, where he earned his master's and doctorate in history, that he was right for the job and will still go on in a future election to win. But she's not counting out tonight's election, either. "I'm still hopeful," she said. "Numbers do funny things, and i wont believe it until the last vote in nerbaska is counted." Neither candidate has emerged to speak as the western districts of Nebraska — which tend to lean Republican — have largely not yet been reported. The mood, meanwhile, was upbeat five blocks away at Johanns' headquarters at the Embassy Suites hotel. Even before the projections of the former governor's win, his campaign appeared confident. In an e-mail to the News early Tuesday morning, a campaign spokeswoman called Tuesday night's event a "victory party."
Gaddis: 'It sounds kind of bleak'
OMAHA, Neb., 1:30 p.m. — I spoke to John Lewis Gaddis, the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military & Naval History and one of Scott Kleeb's GRD '06 chief inspirations for entering politics, by telephone last night. How does the so-called dean of Cold War historians, who donated several thousand dollars to Nebraskans for Kleeb, feel the night before his former head TA faces election day in his bid for the United States Senate? "Well, obviously I wish him the very best. It sounds kind of bleak, though. From the "little bit that I read," Gaddis added, "he doesn't seem to be getting as much national coverage as he got running for the House two years ago." But is this the end? No, the professor said. "He has a future at some point. He's a natural. But this may not be the time."
Kleeb: 'Hipster', 'Fantastic' or Just Anti-Comatose?
OMAHA, Neb., 12:47 p.m. — Ryan the Angry Midget put it bluntly in his prediction post: "Democrat Scott Kleeb gets clubbed by Mike Johanns." Just travel several miles west in the blogosphere and you'll encounter Booman of the Booman Tribune. In his words, Kleeb is a "fantastic and attractive" candidate. "I don't have any recent polling," he writes, "but I can't rule out a Kleeb stunner." But another blog — "Leavenworth Street - The Talk of Nebraska Politics" — wasn't as kind. In exploring who will succeed Chuck Hagel, "Street Sweeper" put Mike Johanns' odds at 1:150 — and Kleeb's at, well, 150:1. "The Kleeb camp is crowing right now that they have internal polling that shows them neck-and-neck with Johanns," he writes, "Riiiiiiiight." It's the chorus of blogosphere predictions — a new staple of democracy in America. And this morning, I spent some time — frankly, I'm not sure why — finding the gems. Indeed, there are some. Some.
At Wal-Mart, a final push for Heartland’s voters
OMAHA, Neb. — At 8:26 p.m. Monday night, less than twelve hours before the polls open here, a Yale graduate running for the United States Senate is pacing the parking lot of a Wal-Mart on 72nd Street and Pine.
Eli a long shot in Nebraska
Senate candidate Scott Kleeb GRD ’06 makes second bid to ‘turn a red region blue’
HASTINGS, Neb. — Two years and two weeks ago, Scott Kleeb GRD ’06 felt like he could achieve the near-impossible: turn a red region blue for the first time in 48 years by edging out Adrian Smith for Nebraska’s 3rd Congressional District seat. The momentum, he says, was all his.
New Haven schools still see segregation
How much does race matter in New Haven’s schools, 15 years after the city’s current superintendent took office and 10 years after a landmark Connecticut Supreme Court ruling — Sheff vs. O’Neill — ordered Hartford schools to work toward eliminating racial isolation?