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...more exacting model for Obama may be the rookie Democrat Woodrow Wilson, who logged a scant two years as governor of New Jersey (his first go at elective office) before making his bid for the White House in 1912. Like Obama, Wilson had spent his adult life immersed in university politics. Wilson's essays on American history feature the voice of a professor, not a machine candidate. Obama is himself something of a Wilsonian progressive, a man who puts his faith in transparency and voluntarism rather than New Deal--style interest-group wrangling. He also maintains some of Wilson...
...first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country.' MICHELLE OBAMA, on voter enthusiasm, prompting critics to label her unpatriotic...
...your goal to encourage adult reading and bring back childhood? GM: Absolutely, and we should love to read. We should pick something up and say, “Oh I can’t believe I have this, oh how great!” That is how we should want to feel about our books, and that is what I hope people feel about my books...
...crisis [Oct. 20]? Observing from the southern tip of Africa, with my little salary of $1,500 a month, I cannot help but ask when will Americans themselves accept responsibility for the problem and recognise that they have been living beyond their means for much too long? Are you adult, responsible people, or should your government also wash your ears in the morning? Henri du Plessis, CAPE TOWN
...usually turn away from scenes like the one in Englewood, a fabled slum on the South Side of Chicago. On 70th Street and South Yale Avenue, a grandmother lay dead by the front door of her house; her adult son had been killed moments before by a shot through the kitchen window; her 7-year-old grandson was missing, his bullet-riddled body later recovered in an abandoned car. The boy's stepfather, on parole after years in prison for attempted murder and carjacking, has been taken in for questioning. "Because I chose to do what was natural...