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insidesports | 3Football wins bigThe Bulldogs were sent home with their tails between their legs after the Aggies put up 70 points Saturday.

sports | 5Volleyball lossThe Aggies came up short at home against the Kentucky Wildcats in a seesaw of a match that went fi ve sets.

sports | 5Soccer keeps streakSoccer stretched its win streak to eight with a pair of weekend wins, dispatching South Carolina and Auburn in turn.

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Aggie swimmer prepares for season after Olympic gold

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Transportation Services to launch bike-share program

As a college student, the de-cision to purchase a bicycle can seem like an expensive commit-ment, particularly if one isn’t sure the bike will be used enough to justify the purchase.

Luckily for students at Texas A&M, Borrow-a-Bike, a short-term bike lease program from Transportation Services, will soon be available.

Students and employees who choose to participate in the new program can borrow a Maroon-Bike for a short period of time. Bicycles that are leased are due back the next day by 10 a.m. If the student borrows a bicycle on a Friday it must be returned the following Monday morning.

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Bike featuresMaroonBikes feature airless tires, chainless drive shaft, an eight-speed automatic transmisison and an anti-theft system.

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During the summer of 2012, Texas A&M University un-derwent multiple changes on campus. Construction began on Wellborn and Old Main; Aggies said goodbye to the Big 12 and hello to the Southeast-ern Conference, and Chan-cellor John Sharp announced Texas A&M and the Univer-sity System would outsource its custodial, maintenance and dining services to Compass Group USA.

Freshmen and transfer stu-dents may not notice anything different with dining, but for returning students, quality and price of food seem to be hot topics.

Toward the end of the spring semester there was a division in the student body as to whether or not Texas A&M should outsource cus-todial, maintenance and dining services after a request for pro-posals in February 2012. After the announcement was made on June 21 and a contract was signed, Chartwells Higher Ed-ucation Dining Services — a food service company owned and operated by Compass Group USA — began provid-ing the dining services on cam-pus in early August.

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Breeja Larson became the first Aggie swimmer to earn an Olympic gold by advancing the 4x100-meter medley relay to the finals.

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Breeja Larson swims the 100-meter breaststroke at the U.S. Olympic trials. Larson won ahead of favorite Rebecca Soni.

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Students wave glow sticks while the lights are turned off at Kyle Field during Midnight Yell. The glow sticks are to honor and raise awareness for U.S. servicemen and women around the world.

While most of the Olympic dust has settled, one star returns to Col-lege Station, Texas. Breeja Larson, who is returning as a junior, swims freestyle and breaststroke.

Larson qualified individually in the breaststroke final but placed sixth after she dove into a malfunctioning horn to start the race. Larson said she was thankful for the opportunity but coming back to College Station was also something she enjoyed.

“It’s so exciting,” Larson said. “It was a nice summer being able to have all of those experiences, but it’s also nice to come back down to earth and really get into the season.”

Larson did not venture to the London games alone. She was ac-companied by Texas A&M women’s swim and dive coach Steve Bultman and teammate Camille Adams, a fly, free and individual medley swim-mer. Larson said it was beneficial to have an experienced teammate with her in London to help her through the competition.

“It was incredible,” Larson said. “She was able to kind of show me the ropes a little bit, because I’m a little newer and she’s been around and swimming at this level for a while. She was able to explain some things to me that would’ve been embarrassing if I didn’t know.”

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Sumlin and company scored 70 points and the Bulldogs scored 14; that’s all that needs to be said for Saturday’s laughter. It was fun, and it’s over. Giggle one more time over the box score, O Aggie Stat-Nerds, and then toughen up.

Before we go too far, however, a look at senior defensive back and punt return-man Dustin Har-ris’s historic, lightning-in-a-barrel performance is warranted. Harris broke the Southeastern Conference record and topped his own school record by over 80 yards with 246 punt-return yards. By game’s end, Harris was gunning for the all-time NCAA record of 277. Harris’s night was the by product of a perfect storm of an above-average

punter, a below-average coverage team, and a great returner– the reigning NCAA stat leader in punt returns.

It was a sign of his success that Harris fielded a punt off the bounce on his own four yard-line— a huge no-no, as almost any coach, high school and up, will tell you— and burned the SCSU coverage team for a 96-yard score, coming up two yards short of the program record for longest punt return. Nothing should be said to detract from Harris’s game. He deserves it. But it’s time to look beyond the glorified scrimmage that was SCSU.

A&M looked down the barrel of uncertainty over this past offseason,

and not because of any uneasiness about the transition to the SEC. The Aggies had a coach and a conference, but they didn’t have a quarterback. Redshirt freshman Johnny Manziel emerged from the offseason scrum with the signal-caller role, and everyone said the right things when asked. He has our full confidence, Manziel’s coaches and teammates said again and again. No one else seemed so sure.

Even after a Florida game that was probably above average for a freshman’s first start and a roasting of the SMU defense, there were those that continued to point to sophomore Jameill Showers, tout-ing Showers as the better arm and

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the better decision-maker. I’ll end the debate in a sen-

tence: Manziel had five combined touchdowns before the half for 941 all-purpose yards and 12 touch-downs with no turnovers through three games, and Showers threw a bumbling interception on his third toss of the game. It’s over, Aggie fans. Manziel is our guy. He’s here to stay, so stand behind him. He’s not a perfect quarterback, but he’s our imperfect quarterback.

Behind Manziel, it’s time to look forward. Arkansas staggers into Kyle Field next Saturday on a three-game skid including an overtime loss to lowly Louisiana Monroe and a 52-point shelling at the hands of Alabama. They’re humbled, beaten, subdued, thrashed. Tread softly, Ags. With senior quarterback Tyler Wilson back in the fold, the Razorbacks aren’t the same animal. A&M has struggled sealing wins

against Arkansas in recent years, and that should scare Aggie fans. The worst part for the home team is the high risk, low reward nature of the matchup. When the Razorbacks sat in the Top-10 nationally, a home loss wouldn’t be a deathblow for a young Aggie season. With the Razorbacks reeling, splitting at the seams, a second home loss would sink the A&M ship.

If we’ve learned anything from the first three games of the season, it’s this: the final score is anyone’s guess, but the thrill comes guaranteed.

Dustin Harris broke A&M and SEC records in single-game punt-return yardage with 246 yards, including a 96-yard touchdown.

Mark Dore: Harris makes history, Manziel quashes controversy and Arkansas looms

Manziel-train rolls

The South Carolina State Bulldogs weren’t ready. They weren’t fast enough,

or strong enough, or deep enough. The Aggies did to them what was ex-

pected of an SEC team.

Mark Dore is a junior English major and sports desk assistant for The Battalion.

Saturday night, Texas A&M had their way, beating the South Carolina State Bulldogs 70-14 at Kyle Field.

Texas A&M won on offense gain-ing 448 total yards to the Bulldogs’ 223, on defense by limiting S.C. State to 4-17 in third and fourth down situations, and on special teams with senior defensive back Dustin Harris returning eight punts for a total of 246 yards, a school and SEC record.

Head Coach Kevin Sumlin said the win was a team effort and field position put freshman quarterback Johnny Manziel in good situations.

“Overall, it’s a great team vic-tory,” Sumlin said. “The defense is playing really well and special teams really helped the field position.”

Harris broke his own school re-cord of 162 yards set last year against Kansas. The Aggies scored on their second possession of the game after

Harris returned a punt for 19 yards allowing the Aggies to start from the Bulldogs 33-yard line.

The Aggies drove the ball into the end zone with junior running back Ben Malena from four yards out. Two drives later, the Aggies scored again after being set up on South Carolina State’s 42-yard line by Harris. Manziel started to run but then found senior receiver Uzoma Nwachukwu in the back of the end zone from 9 yards out.

When asked about the return game, Harris said that every time he caught the ball he thought he was going to score.

“Being able to sit there, catch the ball and know I have guys block-ing for me, guys that have my back, guys that know one block can set me free. They just sit back there and do their job. It’s a reward to the whole special teams.” Harris said.

The starters got to rest after a 49-7 lead at halftime. Senior run-ning back Christine Michael came

One for the booksIn a throttling, the Aggies dispatch South Carolina State at home, 70-14

in during the second half and ran the ball seven times for 26 yards. Coach Sumlin said that there was not a reason he didn’t play more, to put off speculation that he was still suspended.

Senior receiver Ryan Swope said that it was good for the starters to

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rest, and give other players college experience, but they had to get the job done first.

“It’s important to get our work in and focus one game at a time,” Swope said. “Taking care of business these first three games is really im-portant. It gives guys an opportunity

to get out there and play and get a feel for the game.”

The Aggies move to 2-1 on the season and start this three game home stretch at 1-0. Texas A&M will face the Arkansas Razorbacks next Saturday at Kyle Field at 11:21 a.m.

David Cohen — THE BATTALION

Johnny Manziel carves the South Carolina State defense en route to five first-half touchdowns.

Jade Bedell — THE BATTALION

Yell leaders take the field ahead of the team, setting the ball rolling on a 70-14 A&M win over SCSU.

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Freshman biomedical sciences major Alexandra McMillan goes through the serving line Sunday at Sbisa.

“It is exciting to transition to a large univer-sity like TAMU,” said president and CEO of Chartwells, Steve Sweeney. “Over the last three weeks of move in and opening, more than 25 Chartwells team members comprised of chefs, managers and senior managers came from all over the country to support the TAMU team through the transition.”

Compass Group USA operates 15 food ser-vice companies including Chartwells, while leading and specializing in food service man-agement and support services. Levy Restau-rants, a subsidiary of Compass Group USA, is a market leader known for providing catering to professional sports teams and events such as the GRAMMY Awards, the U.S. Open, the Democratic National Convention, the Super Bowl and the Kentucky Derby.

Compass Group USA’s cliental includes 90 of Fortune 100 companies and promotes di-versity as they have been ranked No. 33 by The Black Collegian Top 100 Employers and has recently moved up in Diversity Employers Top 100.

The parent company, UK- based Compass Group PLC, dates back to 1941 when it was originally founded as Factory Canteens LTD. The following year, Compass Group relocated and established their headquarters in Charlotte, N.C. Compass Group PLC now operates in over 50 countries and serves customers in offic-es and factories; schools and universities; hospi-tals and senior living communities; major sports and cultural venues; and remote mining camps and offshore platforms, according to Compass Group’s website.

Chartwells Higher Education Dining Ser-vices, on the other hand, has a long history of providing a university dining throughout the country and is a little more familiar with the Southeastern Conference.

“We manage the dining services at LSU and the University of Arkansas, both of which Chartwells transitioned to more than 10 years ago from self-operated programs,” Sweeney said. “In addition, we operate the dining ser-vices at Auburn University.”

Many students have noticed a minute in-

crease in food costs, and may be concerned, but Chartwells has an explanation to the cost of the food. According to their website, Chartwells has implemented food sourcing policies for purchasing sustainable food products including 100 percent certified seafood, cage-free shell eggs, hormone and antibiotic-free chicken, tur-key, pork, grass-fed beef and rBGH free milk.

Along with their food sourcing policies, Chartwells uses minimal amounts of fat by us-ing margarines and spreads with zero grams of trans fat, including zero gram trans-fat oils, limits the use of processed foods, and does not cook foods with preservatives or high levels of sodium.

Moreover, Chartwells has implemented programs to help protect the environment, re-duce waste and decrease the carbon footprint.

Regardless of the fact that a foreign company is managing the dining services at Texas A&M, the voice of the student body is as much of an importance as it was before.

“We have implemented the Dining Services Advisory Committee to ensure concerns of all interested parties including students, faculty and professionals are being recognized by Chart-wells,” said vice president of student services Holly Scott.

Scott expressed the willingness of Chartwells to address the concerns the student body might bring forth.

“As we move through this semester, students will be asked to participate in surveys, to attend focus groups and to join the Dining Services Advisory Committee so that we can build the best program for Texas A&M that is custom-ized to the community,” Sweeney said.

Chartwells has already proposed renova-tions for the Commons and Duncan Dining Hall and has suggested bringing national brands to campus.

During the transition in August, over 600 Texas A&M associates including managers, full time and part time staff and student workers were offered the same positions, contrary to rumors that arose during the spring semester.

“These kinds of people who have been here for so long understand the culture and are part of Texas A&M,” Scott said. “Understanding the spirit of Aggieland is so important and keep-ing those workers to educate [Chartwells] was a very wise move.”

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Larson emphasized the impor-tance of having coach Bultman by her side. She said it was good for her routine and made her feel more comfortable.

Texas A&M is known for the Aggie family and how Ag-gies care for one another and it showed in London. Coach Bult-man said having teammates going to the Olympics and supporting each other spoke volumes about their camaraderie.

“The girls care about each oth-er,” Bultman said. “We talk to re-cruits and there are a lot of good reasons to choose Texas A&M, but the girls [who will be their team-mates] are the icing on the cake.”

Although Larson didn’t end up with an individual medal, she helped team USA receive the gold medal in the 4x100 medley relay. She is now re-entering the world of collegiate swimming with a new level of experience and success.

Facing the drastic transition can

be a daunting task. Adams is relying on advice from previous Olympic athlete Misty Hyman to have fun and focus on the details.

“I recently had dinner with Misty Hyman,” Adams said. “She encouraged me to work on the little things and to never get bored with the sport, like coming up with an every day plan even if it’s some-thing little.”

While Larson is still motivated to win another gold, she is focus-ing on the upcoming Aggie season. Larson and her teammates look to keep the individual titles they won at nationals last year and improve their performance this coming season.

Texas A&M has been in the top 10 for the last six years, reaching a high of claiming No. 4. Coach Bultman and Larson said they want to top that this year.

“I really want our team to get top four,” Larson said. “It’s just a matter of mind over matter and making sure we are prepared for it. I just want to improve my times and have my team as a whole improve.”

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equestrian | Saturday, A&M

opened its season with a 15-5 win

over South Dakota State.

men’s golf | The Aggies began

the PING/Golfweek Preview

Sunday, will conclude on Tuesday.

cross-country | Friday,

A&M will travel to the Notre

Dame Cross Country Invitational.

Breeja Larson placed 6th in her individual event, the 100-meter breast stroke, at the 2012 Olympics.

Chase Krumholz — THE BATTALION

Senior forward Catalina Clavijo celebrates after scoring a goal against Auburn Sunday afternoon at Ellis Field.

Another weekend in the books, and the No. 10 Aggie soccer team’s (10-1, 4-0) shutout streak rolls on, extending to seven games with 2-0 wins over South Carolina on Friday and Auburn on Sunday. The win streak stands at eight games overall.

Head coach G Guerrieri said the team’s play has been special.

“The back line is playing well,” Guerrieri said. “Our midfield has been able to keep the other team at bay which makes it difficult for them to try and get any other balls behind us.”

In the team’s inaugural season in the Southeastern Conference, A&M tops the SEC’s Western di-vision and joins fellow conference first-timer Missouri as the only teams to reach 4-0 in conference play. Sophomore forward Annie Kunz said the team has started the conference schedule in the best

possible manner.“We’re starting off on the right

foot going into the SEC,” Kunz said. “We’ve got three wins under our belt against three really good SEC teams. I think we’re head-ing in the right direction as we move toward the end of the season and playoffs.”

Sophomore goalkeeper Jordan Day’s seventh consecutive shutout knotted her in a tie for the longest streak in SEC history. Day said she defers the credit to her teammates.

“I have to give so much credit to our defense,” Day said. “They’ve been doing so well in not allow-ing the other team to get off good shots. They’ve been really hard and powerful in their tackles and high balls. They’ve made life a lot easier on me by not having to make as many saves because they’re doing the work for me.”

The Aggies got two goals on 17 shots friday, from sophomore mid-fielder Meghan Streight off a set piece in the 25th minute and Kunz

in the 64th. The Aggies missed on key early opportunities but Guerr-ieri said the team made corrections to put South Carolina away, 2-0.

“In the first half, I thought we were a little bit frantic,” Guerrieri said. “In the second half, we didn’t allow that to happen. We battled for balls and then quickly got the second ball under control and that allowed us to play out of it.”

Two days later, A&M fielded the same result, this time with a 2-0 win over Auburn. Senior for-ward Catalina Clavijo and senior midfielder Beth West netted the only goals for either team, and the Aggies cruised to complete the un-blemished weekend.

The Aggies next see action on the road Friday against Kentucky at 6.

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Weekend sweep brings shutout streak to seven

Aggies fall in five-set heartbreakerThe Texas A&M volleyball team

suffered their first SEC loss, snap-ping their nine game-winning streak by falling to the Kentucky Wildcats Sunday afternoon 3-2.

In what was a seesaw affair, the Aggies now stand at 10-2 (2-1) for the season while Kentucky is 7-6 (1-2).

“The bottom line today was that our confidence in our serve receive was shaky,” head coach Laurie Cor-belli said. “Today we just didn’t recover as often as we usually do. Things were a little out of sorts and yet we were still fighting.”

After holding a 15-10 lead in the opening set, the Aggies had trouble closing out the set as Kentucky then scored four unanswered points. From there, both teams exchanged points, which gave the Aggies a 22-20 lead. However the Wild-cats closed out the Aggies, giving them their first opening set loss for the season.

In the close second set, there were 15 ties and 10 lead changes with the Aggies fighting off the Wildcats ef-forts to take the set. Senior opposite Alisia Kastmo put the Aggies ahead 25-24 with outside hitter Tori Mel-linger and middle blocker Lindsey Miller covering the net.

The third set would be one that Aggies would like to forget, as it opened with Kentucky racing out to a 10-0 lead. The Wildcats produced five aces in the set as Kentucky opened up its biggest lead of the af-ternoon 23-12. The Aggies tried to

make a stand by scoring four points in a row, but the Wildcats were just too much , making the set’s final score 25-18.

Mellinger led the charge for the Aggies in the fourth set along with assistance from freshmen Angela Lowak and Sierra Patrick. Mellinger had eight kills to pace the Aggies 25-20 is the tying fourth set.

The Aggies held a 4-1 lead to open the fifth and final set however, when that match saw both teams tied at 12 a piece, the Wildcats pushed ahead scoring three unanswered points to claim the set and match 15-12.

“I thought Mellinger just played her tail off and Kastmo did the best she’s done,” Corbelli said. “Once again, we’ve got to continue to work on our blocking.”

The Aggies now must move on from the rare defeat and go on the road for games at Missouri and at Alabama before returning to Reed Arena October 5th against South Carolina.

“It’s one match that we can’t overreact to,” Corbelli said. “We did some darn good things but weren’t able to finish. It happens to a lot of teams, and it happened to us today. I think the best part of that is that it motivates my team in prac-tice more to work on the little things that we need to work on, and they know what those things are. I’m en-couraged. I still believe in my team. I think they are a top quality group and we’ll just continue to challenge them and prepare them for the next match.”

Michael Rodriguez The Battalion

James Thompson — THE BATTALION

Senior middle blocker Lindsey Miller spikes the ball toward Kentucky Sunday afternoon at Reed Arena.

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Ron Steedly, alternative transpor-tation manager for Transportation Services. “So we are able to provide the service at almost no cost to our department.”

There is no added cost for current Texas A&M students and employ-ees for the Borrow-a-Bike program. The program’s fleet of bikes is com-pletely composed of MaroonBikes.

“We wanted to use the Maroon-Bikes since they are designed with durability in mind,” Steedly said. “The bikes are maintenance free and we needed that so we would always have bikes for the program.”

MaroonBikes are a breed of bi-cycles that have a lifetime warranty and are handmade in Texas. The bicycles have many distinguishable features that make them nearly in-destructible and set them apart from bikes that are made cheaply without regard to longevity.

“What makes them rust proof and what makes them so durable, most bikes you get at a bike store are just regular paint, whereas ours are powder coated and what isn’t powder coated is stainless steel,” said Ryan Wood, inventory manager at MaroonBikes. “The bike can with-stand rain, hail, salt and it won’t cor-rode anywhere.”

The new program is designed to be beneficial to all students, whether they already own a bike or not.

“There may be times when you

just need a bike,” Steedly said. “As a bike owner, I rely on my bike for transportation. If it breaks, I can now take it to the shop for repair and borrow a bike so I am never without transportation.”

The Borrow-a-Bike program was brought to Texas A&M by Peter Lange, executive director for trans-portation services, after he visited a university with a similar program.

“It’s a great way for students, fac-ulty and staff to see if biking to and from or around campus will work for them,” Lange said.

For students who are still unsure about biking on campus, this pro-gram will give them an opportunity to do a test drive.

Tara Obeid, senior applied math-ematical sciences major, walked to classes for the previous years and feels the program will be helpful.

“I’ve considered getting a bike before because I’d get to class fast-er,” Obeid said. “But I haven’t actu-ally bought one because there’s the chance I wouldn’t like riding it on campus and then it would just waste away locked to a bike rack. May-be now I’ll try biking to see what it’s like.”

It is also important to keep in mind that Borrow-a-Bike is a basic form of a bike share.

“We ask the Aggie community members that use the program to be conscious about bringing back the bike when you are finished using it so it is available to another Aggie that may need a bike,” Steedly said.

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Chase Krumholz — THE BATTALION

Freshman general studies major Kyle McKelvey rides his rented MaroonBike outside of the MSC. Bike rate for an academic year is $35.

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The 111th edition of Texas A&M University’s official yearbook will chronicle traditions, academics, the other education, sports, the Corps, Greeks, ResLife, campus organizations and seniors and graduate students. Distribution will be during Fall 2013.

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Sophomore mathematics major Jennings Fairchild examines high school ROTC cadets during a drill as part of Junior Cadet Accessions Program, which invites high school ROTC cadets to experience the Corps.

Romney strives to turn page on rough weekMitt Romney’s presidential campaign

strove to turn the page on a week of pub-lic stumbles and Republican hand-wringing Sunday, promising a redoubled effort in the most competitive states to undercut his op-ponent’s economic record as voters tune in for the final six weeks of a close race.

Both candidates were looking ahead to the pivotal next phase of the campaign, where the three presidential debates — the first on Oct. 3 in Denver — present the greatest oppor-tunities to speak directly to voters or to get tripped up by a gaffe-turned-sound bite with little time to recover before Election Day.

Rehearsal for those debates consumed the early part of the day for the former Massa-chusetts governor, who huddled with senior advisers in Los Angeles ahead of an evening campaign stop at a Denver-area high school. Romney has consistently taken time from his campaign schedule in recent weeks to focus on debate preparation — whether studying up on policy issues or roleplaying with Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, who has been tapped to play

Obama in Romney’s debate dry runs.While both sides are downplaying expec-

tations, Romney’s campaign sees the debates — the first one in particular — as a huge op-portunity to get his campaign and its message back on track after a troublesome week. A secretly recorded video released Monday showed Romney writing off his prospects for winning over the almost half of Ameri-cans who he said pay no taxes, are dependent upon government and see themselves as vic-tims dominated the week.

Hoping to discharge another long-prob-lematic issue during an already lost week, Romney on Friday released his 2011 tax re-turns showing income of $13.7 million, large-ly from investments. Citing Romney’s refusal to release more than two years of returns, Obama aides argued that wasn’t enough, seeking to parlay the issue into a broader con-demnation of Romney’s reluctance to lay out the specifics about how his tax plan would affect average Americans.

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