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...said the event’s moderator, Harvard Kennedy School lecturer Sheila Burke, in an interview before the discussion began. “We ought to be paying attention to these issues and there are real differences between the candidates’ policies and how they will affect women...
...When you came to the States, you stayed with a Quaker family. How did that experience affect you? Andrew Sun, Los Angeles It was during the Vietnam War era, so my eyes were opened to a lot of things about the world: democracy, freedom, choices and the responsibility that is tied to freedom and choice. In [the new film] A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, the daughter says, "I learned a new language, I learned a new culture and became a new person." And that's really what I went through...
...four key states likely reflects, in part, the fact that his latest attacks on Obama are not having much impact. Although a majority of voters in Virginia, Ohio and North Carolina had heard of Ayers and ACORN, less than one-third of voters said such issues would affect their votes...
...mistake; his language during the general-election campaign has been simple, direct and pragmatic. His best moments in the debates came when he explained what he wanted to do as President. His very best moment came in the town-hall debate when he explained how the government bailout would affect average people who were hurting: if companies couldn't get credit from the banks, they couldn't make their payrolls and would have to start laying people off. McCain, by contrast, demonstrated why it's so hard for Senators to succeed as presidential candidates: he talked about Fannie...
...specter of uninterred corpses has powerful evocations in Britain, where a strike by gravediggers in the 1978 "Winter of Discontent" left mortuaries struggling to cope. As the current delays only affect a percentage of welfare recipients, it is unlikely that this year will see a problem anywhere close to the scale of the 1978 crisis (which forced health officials to consider mass burials at sea). But Britain's undertakers have offered a corporeal reminder of how financial crises can infringe in intimate ways. "We are the forth richest country in the world," MP Kawczynski says. "The idea that you would...