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• [KSL] - Raul Neto credits strong mindset for recent run of strong play

  22-03-2019 23:27 via sportspyder.com
  Raul Neto has been a steadying hand for Utah's second unit. And that's been a nice bright spot in what has been a season filled with point guard question marks.
  
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• Mueller concludes Russia probe, delivers report to AG Barr

  22-03-2019 22:36
  Washington • Special counsel Robert Mueller on Friday turned over his long-awaited final report on the contentious Russia investigation that has cast a dark shadow over Donald Trump’s presidency, entangled Trump’s family and resulted in criminal charges against some of the president’s closest associates.The comprehensive report, still confidential, marks the end of Mueller's probe but sets the stage for big public fights to come. The next steps are up to Trump's attorney g
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Donovan Mitchell heard about a former teacher’s daughter and friend who needed money to finish school. He gave her $25,000.

  22-03-2019 22:27 via sportspyder.com
  Chicago • In 2018, tuition at Greenwich Country Day School cost $40,125 per year for 4th graders, according to their website.
  
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• Fifth-year senior Josh Perkins is the on-court maestro behind No. 1 seed Gonzaga’s success as Zags get ready for Baylor in NCAA Tournament second-round game

  22-03-2019 22:26
  College basketball player of the year candidates Rui Hachimura and Brandon Clarke put up their usual big numbers on Thursday night as Gonzaga walloped Fairleigh Dickinson 87-49 in an NCAA Tournament first-round game. Potential NBA first-round draft pick Killian Tillie swooped in for a highlight-reel hammer dunk and added 17 points and Zach Norvell provided timely outside shooting.But the No. 1-seeded Zags say the maestro behind it all — at least when they’re on the court — is f
  
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• Tenant is arrested after fight that killed Salt Lake City homeowner

  22-03-2019 22:25
  A Salt Lake City homeowner is dead and a man who was renting a room from him has been arrested after a fight at the residence early Thursday.According to a probable cause statement, Jesse Bruce, 40, called 911 at about 1 a.m. Thursday and said “he had stabbed his landlord.” Officers arrived at a home near 800 East Northcliffe Drive and found the body of Corey Haney, 40, who owned the home. He had been stabbed “multiple times,” according to a police spokesman.Bruce was tra
  
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• Donovan Mitchell heard about a former teacher’s daughter and friend who needed money to finish school. He gave her $25,000.

  22-03-2019 22:17
  Chicago • In 2018, tuition at Greenwich Country Day School cost $40,125 per year for 4th graders, according to their website.It was a little cheaper back when Donovan Mitchell went there as a child, but not much. They give financial aid to some students, but only about 17 percent of the student body.You should also know this: by all accounts, Greenwich Country Day School is fantastic. It has a 5-star rating on GreatSchools.org, a 5-star rating on Google. Its teachers earn a 4.6 rating on Ra
  
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• R. Kelly defense emerges, including saying accusers are lying

  22-03-2019 22:16
  Chicago • R. Kelly yelled through tears in a recent TV interview before an audience numbering in the millions, saying he’s in a fight for his life to disprove sexual abuse charges. That fight will ultimately be waged in court, with the only audience that matters numbering just 12 jurors.While the day lawyers deliver opening statements to jurors inside a Cook County courtroom is still many months or even years away, court filings as well as comments by the R&B star himself and his
  
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• Draper is investigating allegations against a police lieutenant

  22-03-2019 22:11
  A Draper Police lieutenant who is under investigation for “possible policy violations” has announced his retirement — but the investigation will continue.Chad Carpenter, the Draper department’s longtime public information officer, was placed on administrative leave on March 13 after unspecified allegations were made against him. Draper City and the Unified Police Department are conducting the investigation.In a press release, officials said the city “supports the in
  
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• Holly Richardson: The No Gun Ri massacre and ‘collective forgetting’

  22-03-2019 22:00
  Have you ever heard of the story of the No Gun Ri bridge massacre of the Korean War? I hadn’t either, until a couple of weeks ago. In late July 1950, in the early days of the Korean War, U.S. troops killed a large number of South Korean refugees, many of them women and children, who were trapped under a bridge near the little village of No Gun Ri.In the 1950s, the height of McCarthyism, it would have been unusual indeed to see stories about the U.S. military killing civilians, as it ran co
  
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• Pope Francis wants psychological testing to prevent problem priests. But will that work?

  22-03-2019 21:49
  As the Catholic Church quakes through one sexual abuse scandal after another, Pope Francis recently announced a policy he wants to implement on a worldwide scale: No man should become a priest without a psychological evaluation proving he is suited to a life of chastity.In the United States, most men seeking to enter a Catholic seminary undergo psychological testing, often a battery of questions that probes their deepest secrets and can last for days.As Francis elevates the visibility of this ty
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Will the Utah Jazz win 50 games?

  22-03-2019 21:44 via sportspyder.com
  Eclipsing the half-century mark in wins is something only two Utah teams have done in the last decade
  
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• Trump says he’s bucking Treasury, reversing NKorea sanctions

  22-03-2019 21:32
  Palm Beach, Fla. • President Donald Trump tweeted Friday that he has reversed his administration’s decision to slap new sanctions on North Korea, with his press secretary explaining that he “likes” leader Kim Jong Un and doesn’t think they’re necessary.It's unclear, however, which sanctions the president was referencing in his tweet, which took Treasury officials by surprise."It was announced today by the U.S. Treasury that additional large scale Sanctions woul
  
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• Redshirt freshman Jaren Hall has emerged as frontrunner for backup QB job as BYU prepares for Saturday’s spring scrimmage at old Provo High field

  22-03-2019 21:23
  Provo • It’s not the final spring practice, and it won’t be a game or even an 11-on-11 scrimmage the entire time. Heck, it won’t even be held at LaVell Edwards Stadium, which is being renovated.But BYU’s “Spring Open Practice,” as the school is calling it, will still give fans an opportunity to see the football team up close and mingle with others who need a football fix five months before the season opener against Utah, coach Kalani Sitake said.Saturday&
  
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• Boise State favored, but BYU will have home floor advantage when Cougars host the Mountain Rim Gymnastics Championships on Saturday

  22-03-2019 21:11
  While the Utah Utes hope to make the Maverik Center their home away from home and win the Pac-12 gymnastics title, Brigham Young University will be trying to use its home advantage and win its first Mountain Rim title.The Cougars will compete against Boise State, Southern Utah and Utah State in the Marriott Center starting at 6 p.m. Saturday.Boise State, ranked No. 13, is the favorite to win its fifth straight title, though the 15th-ranked Cougars can’t be overlooked, particularly after th
  
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• Jennie Willoughby: Is there life after disgrace? My ex-husband Rob Porter shows that is hard to answer.

  22-03-2019 21:08
  Last week, my ex-husband, former White House staff secretary Rob Porter emerged from a year of silence to pen an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal. It was a seemingly benign and inconspicuous return to a world that he was compelled to leave a year ago.But it was not benign or inconspicuous to me. Rob’s fall from grace began when the media set about reporting on an old blog post I had written about the physical and emotional abuse I suffered during our marriage. Within hours, Colbie Holdern
  
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• It’ll be UCLA vs. Utah in Saturday’s Pac-12 Gymnastics Championships at the Maverik Center

  22-03-2019 20:48
  Asked this week about the Pac-12 Gymnastics Championships, Utah junior MyKayla Skinner cracked a smile and said, “finally, we’ve been waiting for this for so long now.”That about sums up the mentality of Utah’s gymnastics team as it competes in the Pac-12 Championships at West Valley City’s Maverik Center on Saturday.The Utes used the regular season as prep for the postseason, tweaking their lineups and facing pressure situations in practice and competition to be as
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - The legend of Jerry Sloan still intact in Chicago as former Utah Jazz coach approaches 77th birthday

  22-03-2019 20:11 via sportspyder.com
  “He was definitely a neighborhood legend," said Chicago native Jabari Parker of the Washington Wizards. "He played for the Bulls and was one of those first Bulls to ever play."
  
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• The legend of Jerry Sloan still intact in Chicago as former Utah Jazz coach approaches 77th birthday

  22-03-2019 19:58
  CHICAGO — Whenever the Utah Jazz were in town to face the Chicago Bulls, as a player, Karl Malone couldn't help but glance up to notice No. 4 dangling from atop the United Center.Even with that legendary presence lingering on his Illinois soil, Malone's head coach Jerry Sloan never used that as a moment to put himself in the spotlight during their 18 seasons together."No, no, no. He didn't have to make it known," Malone told the Deseret News. "When you're a student of the game, you already
  
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• Papa John’s scores Shaq to help revive its image

  22-03-2019 19:55
  New York • Papa John’s has a new pitchman: Shaquille O’Neal.The chain says basketball Hall of Famer will appear on TV commercials and promote Papa John's in other ways. He will also join the company's board of directors and invest in nine of its restaurants in the Atlanta area.Papa John’s is trying to revive its image after the company’s founder and namesake, John Schnatter, was reported to have used a racial slur during a media training session. Schnatter, who was t
  
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• BYU women eager to prove they’re more than a one-and-done wonder in Saturday’s NCAA tourney opener vs. Auburn

  22-03-2019 19:44
  As one of only two seniors on the BYU women’s basketball roster, and the only player who was around when the Cougars last played in the NCAA Tournament, Jasmine Moody has spent the last few days preparing her teammates for what they will experience on Saturday.“It is a whole different playing field — the energy, the crowd, it is just crazy,” Moody said. “It is going to be a little bit of a shock to our younger players, but I think they are going to handle it well. W
  
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• Trump adds $3.7B in support to finish 2 new nuclear reactors

  22-03-2019 19:41
  Savannah, Ga. • Energy Secretary Rick Perry announced Friday that the Trump administration has finalized $3.7 billion in new loan guarantees to support completion of the first new U.S. commercial nuclear reactors in a generation, calling the expansion of nuclear energy “the real” Green New Deal.The expansion of Plant Vogtle in eastern Georgia has fallen years behind schedule while its price tag has nearly doubled since the government approved two new reactors at the plant in 201
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Bulls’ Kris Dunn questionable, Otto Porter Jr. doubtful vs. Jazz

  22-03-2019 19:38 via sportspyder.com
  The Chicago Bulls could be without the services of Kris Dunn and Otto Porter Jr. for Saturday night’s game against the Utah Jazz, according to a report from K.C. Johnson of the Chicago Tribune. Johnson reports that Dunn, who is now listed as...
  
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• An overseas ad farm targeting Utah’s 2018 election was blocked by Facebook, according to Bloomberg report

  22-03-2019 19:29
  In the lead up to the 2018 midterm election, a Facebook employee removed suspicious Utah-related posts originating from an ad farm in Bangladesh, according to a report published Friday by Bloomberg.The Utah incident was one example offered by the social media giant as part of a presentation in Paris, and reviewed by Bloomberg, to demonstrate the company’s beefed up response to political misinformation campaigns following the revelation of Russian meddling in 2016.“The presentation de
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Even in defeat, it’s hard not to cheer for Mitchell & Co.

  22-03-2019 19:15 via sportspyder.com
  Even as their five-game win streak snaps at the hands of a sub-.500 foe, the Utah Jazz remain winners off the court, as well as on. On Thursday night, the ...
  
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• Utah transportation leaders gets an unexpected gift: an extra $371 million to spend on some big projects

  22-03-2019 19:06
  It’s better than pennies from heaven: Good fortune produced an unexpected $371 million that the Utah Department of Transportation wants to use to upgrade some long-planned big projects.That includes adding $200 million to improve a project to convert U.S. 89 in Davis County into a full freeway; $140 million to add lanes to the new West Davis Corridor highway project; $17 million for a Jordan River bridge on Porter Rockwell Boulevard in Riverton; $10 million to improve State Road 30 in Cach
  
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• Latter-day Saints change seminary program to follow calendar year, not school year. Studies now will match churchwide.

  22-03-2019 19:05
  Soon, all Latter-day Saints — from the youngest teenage seminary student to the oldest adult Sunday school participant — will be on the same page. Literally.The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Friday that the curriculum for its seminary program of religious instruction will shift to the calendar year, not the school year, and will align with other classes throughout the global faith.Beginning in January 2020, seminary students will study the same book of scriptu
  
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• [Amico Hoops] - Interview: Jazz’s Allen still adjusting to NBA life at NCAA tourney time

  22-03-2019 19:04 via sportspyder.com
  ATLANTA — March Madness.  During this time last year, Grayson Allen was one of the most important basketball players in the nation. He was the leader of the almighty Duke Blue Devils in his senior season. On this night, the start of March Madness...
  
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• With five players missing, Real Salt Lake tries to fast-track chemistry ahead of match vs. a dominant LAFC team

  22-03-2019 19:03
  Herriman • A road game against the surging Los Angeles Football Club would have been challenging enough on any weekend.But Real Salt Lake has to play this particular road game against LAFC with a huge disadvantage. Five players will be out of the lineup on Saturday due to either international duty or red-card suspensions.If there was ever a chance for RSL to prove just how deep this year’s roster is, Saturday’s match at Banc of California Stadium would be it.“We have a big
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Highlights: Jazz 114 | Hawks 117

  22-03-2019 18:53 via sportspyder.com
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• Utah Jazz: Even in defeat, it’s hard not to cheer for Mitchell & Co.

  22-03-2019 18:35
  Even as their five-game win streak snaps at the hands of a sub-.500 foe, the Utah Jazz remain winners off the court, as well as on. On Thursday night, the Utah Jazz dropped a game in heartbreaking fashion to the Atlanta Hawks. And while the Hawks are a team on the rise — led by […]
  Utah Jazz: Even in defeat, it’s hard not to cheer for Mitchell & Co. - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Utah rebounds to No. 2 in the nation for job creation

  22-03-2019 18:06
  Utah is back up to No. 2 in the nation for job creation over the past 12 months.Between February 2018 and February 2019, the number of jobs in the state grew by 2.9 percent — second best in the nation, according to seasonally adjusted data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.Nevada was No. 1 with a growth rate of 3.5 percent, and Arizona was No. 3 at 2.7 percent. Overall, 22 states saw increases in their job numbers.During the past year or so, Utah often led the nation o
  
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• Once an insurgent, Bernie Sanders now confronts front-runner challenges

  22-03-2019 18:00
  No longer a fringe candidate or an outsider, Bernie Sanders will be under pressure to score decisive victories in early contests for the Democratic nomination or risk seeing his 2020 candidacy deflate.Sanders' challenge to Hillary Clinton in 2016 gives the 78-year-old independent senator from Vermont higher name recognition than other declared 2020 candidates, and that's made him the early front-runner in the primary campaign.But he still has to prove he has overcome his previous shortcomings &m
  
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• Utah will make a little money hosting the NCAA Tournament at Vivint Arena, but the school values the experience and the national exposure more

  22-03-2019 17:59
  The basketball team's bus parked in the loading dock of Vivint Smart Home Arena for an NCAA Tournament practice session. Staff members walked into the building with their standard equipment, including Gatorade coolers.Oh, no.The Bodyarmor sports drink company has the NCAA contract, so the coolers quickly were replaced. That's just one illustration of the issues that Steve Pyne has prepared himself to address every day for nearly six months, right down to the branding of towels and deodorant in t
  
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• George Pyle: Public transit lines are the neural pathways of a great city

  22-03-2019 17:38
  “Travel is fatal to prejudice.”— Mark TwainTraining to become a London cab driver can take two years. Not, oddly, because they have to learn to drive on the left side of the road.It takes that long to get the hang of what’s called The Knowledge because the city is such an incredible jumble of streets that turn, bend, loop and, even when they keep going in a straight line, can have one name on one side of the intersection and a totally different name on the other side.Scie
  
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• [Deadspin] - The 7 Laws Of Vaportecture, Stadium Art's Fever Dream

  22-03-2019 17:38 via sportspyder.com
  For sports team owners seeking new stadiums or arenas—which is to say, for sports team owners—there are certain tools of the trade at their disposal for convincing fans and politicians to support (and pay for) a new building. They have economic...
  
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• [NBA] - Donovan Mitchell surprises woman with $25,000 tuition check

  22-03-2019 17:21 via sportspyder.com
  The shoes would have probably been enough for Naja Brooks.Before the Jazz took on the Hawks in Atlanta, Donovan Mitchell treated Brooks, the daughter of his fourth-grade teacher, to a shopping spree.
  
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• A fugitive on the run for seven years is found in Utah because he made the wrong $3 purchase

  22-03-2019 16:41
  Ogden • A suspect in a 2012 California homicide is now in jail after police started investigating him for a fraudulent purchase of just $3.The Standard-Examiner reports 33-year-old Cody Tripp was booked Wednesday in the Weber County Jail and is being held without bail.Authorities say Tripp is the main suspect in the killing of 29-year-old Jordan Vigil, who was found dead in Tripp's Castro Valley, California, home on May 14, 2012.Online records do not list an attorney for Tripp.Tripp is list
  
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• A Utah mother says her 16-year-old son’s shooting death was not an accident. She says his stepbrother pulled the trigger.

  22-03-2019 16:40
  Police remain tight-lipped about the arrest of a 15-year-old in connection with the death of his 16-year-old stepbrother, but the victim's mother has not been holding back on social media.On Monday morning, police were called to a home near 5000 West and 5400 South, where they found a 16-year-old boy dead from a gunshot wound to the head. After initially calling it a “tragic accident,” police later announced that they had arrested the 15-year-old on Thursday. No other information was
  
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• Tenant is arrested after fight that killed Salt Lake homeowner

  22-03-2019 16:27
  A Salt Lake homeowner is dead and a man who was renting a room from him has been arrested after a fight at the residence early Thursday.According to a probable cause statement, Jesse Bruce, 40, called 911 about 1 a.m. Thursday and said “he had stabbed his landlord.” Officers arrived at a home near 800 East Northcliffe Drive and found the body of Corey Haney, 40, who owned the home. He had been stabbed “multiple times,” according to a police spokesman.Bruce was transported
  
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• Trump signing Bibles is inappropriate, most U.S. Christians say

  22-03-2019 16:04
  If Donald Trump were the pope or another Christian leader, the majority of U.S. Christians likely wouldn’t have minded that he signed a Bible.Only 39 percent of Christians in the U.S. think it would be inappropriate for a pastor, priest or Christian leader to sign the cover of a Bible. Similarly, 35 percent think it would be inappropriate for the pope to do the same.But a Morning Consult poll released this week shows nearly two-thirds (65 percent) of Christians in the U.S. found it inappro
  
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• Joseph I. Lieberman: Trump could learn lesson from John McCain

  22-03-2019 15:24
  On one of the first foreign trips I took with John McCain, he handed me his comb and asked me to straighten out his hair. He could not raise his arms above his shoulders to comb his own hair, a lifelong consequence - and not the only one - of the abuse he suffered during his more than five years in a North Vietnamese prison.Years later, I traveled to Hanoi with McCain and visited that prison, which is now a museum. A group of Vietnamese high school students came through and when they recognized
  
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• Catherine Rampell: Trump’s ‘socialist’ rhetoric is lazy name-calling from a lazy thinker

  22-03-2019 15:13
  President Trump has made fearmongering about “socialism” a key plank of his re-election campaign. It’s more lazy name-calling from a lazy thinker, but this time the lazy name-calling may backfire.For years, Trump has premised his political pitch on the idea that he alone can protect Americans from the many invaders who wish us harm -- chiefly immigrants, terrorists and globalists. Lately, he's added another boogeyman to the bunch, one that's supposedly homegrown: socialists.In
  
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• Salt Lake City man killed in fight; suspect hospitalized

  22-03-2019 14:34
  Salt Lake City police are investigating after a fight left one man dead and a suspect hospitalized early Thursday.Officers arrived at a home near 800 East Northcliffe Drive about 1:15 a.m. to investigate a report of a fight. They found the body of Corey Haney, 40, and a suspect at the home. The suspect, whose name has not been released, was transported to a hospital, and remained there Friday.Police have not released any information about how Haney died or the condition of the suspect.
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Is Trump on track for a landslide 2020 win?

  22-03-2019 14:28
  Despite President Donald Trump’s low approval ratings, Twitter wars and metastasizing investigations, he’d likely ride to a second term in a huge landslide if the 2020 election were held today, according to multiple economic models with strong track records of picking presidential winners and losses. That’s due to a strong U.S. economy and the historic advantage held by incumbent presidents — but he also could wind up in trouble if the economy slows markedly between now a
  
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