Word: actualizations
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Could you envision it going all the way to the actual convention itself? I think we should take it one day at a time. I find that usually is a better policy in life and in politics...
...Finally, with nothing left to lose, the actual Hillary Clinton came back, in a dizzying array of moods and aspects that seemed to confuse the press. She was gracious toward Obama at the end of the Texas debate. She was furious - "Shame on you, Barack Obama!" - in Ohio. She was sarcastic, mocking Obama's high-flown rhetoric, in Rhode Island. And she was a tough-minded, gritty, independent woman throughout, a woman on her own, as so many working women find themselves these days, cleaning up the messes that their feckless men have made. I cannot emphasize enough how important...
...rhetorical flourishes were often so good that they papered over his actual positions, which remained under-defined in many areas. On social issues, he was far more conservative than his rhetoric often implied: He disapproved of gay adoption, saw lesbian married couples as a threat to the "skeletal system" of civilization, and supported bans on abortion without exceptions for rape or incest. He never engaged criticism of the regressive nature of his plan to abolish the income tax. After making repeated blunders about foreign policy facts, he employed a one-liner to silence his critics: "The mistakes that I think...
...Andrew Velo ’10, and Daniel Balmori ’10 are not talking about the future resident of the White House. Instead, the president they are concerned with will inhabit the Presidential Palace over 1,400 miles away in Havana, Cuba.Though none of them has ever actually set foot on Cuban soil, Lage, Velo, and Balmori care deeply about the island’s politics. All three are officers of the Cuban American Undergraduate Student Association (CAUSA). They note, however, that their views are their own and not of the organization, which strives to be inclusive.Their interest...
...food supplier and its seventh largest trading partner overall. The weakening of tourist and remittance restrictions have revealed just how valuable the dollar is in Havana, where surgeons moonlight as bellhops because the tips they make from American tourists are worth more than their professional salary. Imagine what an actual repeal of the embargo might accomplish...