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...this nature, the student would have to present their request to the Administrative Board via their Resident Dean,” wrote Jampa Ghapontsang, the assistant manager of exams for FAS. “We do know that a student without an invitation to the inauguration had petitioned the Ad Board last week and was denied.” Shah said he is not asking the administration to make exceptions for students particularly for the Obama inauguration. He said he hopes it will become University policy to allow students to make up exams that fall on Inauguration...
...Georgia runoff, however, is one key political celebrity short - much to the detriment of Democratic challenger Jim Martin. President-elect Barack Obama did not make an appearance in Georgia. He did record a radio ad for Martin and robo-calls, but that's all. And now Democrats fear that the surge in black voters that made Martin competitive on Nov. 4 may not materialize on Dec. 2. "It may be that for some voters the real election was a few weeks ago and that this is just details," says Merle Black, a political science professor at Emory University. "Obama...
...Martin's 46.8%, and black Democrats who turned out in record numbers to support Obama didn't vote early for Martin in similar numbers. John McCain and Sarah Palin both returned to Georgia to campaign for Chambliss after winning the state; Obama just taped a radio ad for Martin, who had to rely on surrogates like Ludacris and REM's Michael Stipe to energize his base down the stretch. Chambliss vacuumed money from big donors as well as the Republican Party and the National Rifle Association; Martin did better with small donors and attracted a swarm of labor-union volunteers...
...Social Security while opposing health insurance for children, prescription drugs for seniors, the GI bill for veterans and Democratic efforts to end subsidies for Big Oil. "He'll do everything he can in the Senate to help me change Washington and get America moving again," Obama said in the ad he cut for Martin...
...shattered because it is ruled by people with no conscience," he says, referring to the blame game currently taking place between the ruling Congress Party and the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). On Nov. 28, while Mumbai was still in the grip of terrorism, the BJP released a campaign ad for state elections in Delhi that said, "Brutal terror strikes at will. Weak government: unwilling and incapable." Mumbai residents have also expressed disdain at political banners across Mumbai "saluting" slain police officials, with their sponsors' names mentioned prominently below...