The headlines have moved on, but people still haven’t gotten over Howard Dean’s concession <\/P> This is how Howard Dean marked the first loss of his charmed political life. “We will not give Shouting himself hoarse, Dr. Dean readopted some of the growling, angry outsider tone that With a fierce grin and a red face, he vowed, “We will not quit now or ever!”<\/P> The performance masked what must have been disappointment for Dr. Dean, who until a <\/P>
\nspeech on Monday night. That’s the water-cooler chat, not Tuesday night’s State of the Union
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\nreport<\/FONT><\/EM><\/STRONG><\/A>, written on deadline,
\ncaught Dean’s embarrassing performance with an exactness worth a thousand
\npictures. Every perfectly chosen word was right:<\/FONT><\/P>
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\nWEST DES MOINES, Iowa, Jan. 19 — He burst into the ballroom, fists
\nthrust in the air, and slapped a string of high-fives with the dozens of labor union members
\nstanding onstage. He grabbed hold of Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa and yanked his hand up, too.
\nHe whipped off his suit coat and rolled his sleeves up as far as they would go.<\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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\nup,” he bellowed to the fiery crowd, grabbing one of the American flags being waved and
\nthrashing it around. <\/P>
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\nhad propelled his earlier insurgency as he spun through the list of states where he planned to fight
\nthe next rounds: from New Hampshire
to South Carolina to Massachusetts and North
\nCarolina, the latter two the homes of the men who beat him here. <\/P>
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\ncouple of weeks ago seemed almost invincible and on his way to a clear-cut victory here, but
\nended up with 18 percent of the vote, only enough
for the bronze.<\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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