Can Obama Play Offense?

Suddenly looking vulnerable after Clinton's victories in Ohio and Texas, the new kind of candidate promises to push back

Callie Shell / Aurora for TIME

Democratic candidate for President Barack Obama speaks to the press aboard his plane.

Correction Appended: March 7, 2008

Not long after Michelle Robinson started getting serious about the tall, skinny law student she was dating, she asked her brother Craig, a former basketball star at Princeton and now the head coach at Brown, to hoop it up with him, one on one. "She had heard our father and me talk about how you can tell a lot about a person's personality based on how they play," says Craig, recalling his first game against Barack Obama. "Especially when they're tired."

The two men played...

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