Word: 44th
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While some worry that Obama's brief political career—he's only been a U.S. senator for two and a half years—may not give him enough experience to be the country's 44th president, Tribe said that "it's the quality rather than the quantity of experience that matters...
...focus more on small donors and new ways of reaching them. Clinton made her first foray into viral fund raising a few weeks ago with the launch of Club 44, which seeks to build low-dollar fund-raising networks of young women excited at the prospect that the 44th President may be the first female one. John Edwards, who claims that his fund-raising list numbers about 100,000, has been holding "Small Change for Big Change" events around the country, with tickets selling for as little as $15. He routinely whips out his cell phone at campaign rallies...
...This season, to celebrate the centenary of the first Ziegfeld Follies (which opened at the Jardin de Paris, Broadway and 44th Street, on July 8, 1907), the Encores! management led by Jack Viertel staged three musicals inspired or produced by Ziegfeld's grand old revues. These were extravagant revues featuring vaudeville stars, lavish production numbers and statuesque chorines in eccentric headgear, and they ran annually until 1925, then sporadically for another decade, even after the great impresario's death in 1932. The revue format hung on through the 40s and 50s, with Leonard Sillman's New Faces series...
...then ran away with the supertiebreaker, 10-4.Although no other Crimson players won their matches, all took important steps forward in the contest, according to Fish.“Ashwin put his opponent in continual distress,” Fish said, referring to Ashwin Kumar’s match against 44th-ranked Matko Maravic at No. 2. “It’ll be a great match to build on.”MICHIGAN STATE 4, HARVARD 3In its first match of the season, Harvard faced Michigan State in East Lansing. The Spartans, for their part, had already played...
...death last weekend of the 44th British soldier killed in Afghanistan has amplified questions over the role of NATO in that country, five years after the fall of the Taliban. While U.S. and Alliance forces have no intention of leaving Afghanistan anytime soon, voters in the NATO countries are demanding a concrete exit plan. And, as in Iraq, the Afghanistan exit plan centers on the development of a national army capable of holding off the Taliban without outside help...