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...brilliant early-morning sunshine, Harry E. Brown made his way with a walnut cane along a Kansas City, Mo., boulevard, carrying the heavy metal folding chair that had helped him through a two-hour wait to cast his ballot. He had a mile and a half still ahead of him. "The only reason I'd walk this far," Brown said, was for Barack Obama. "It's not because of the color of his skin--it's because of the change he will bring to America." Back when King was dreaming a father's dreams for his children, Brown lived...
...know that there’s an expectation for me to step up and perform,” Harms said. “I know that I have to work and train hard.” With the Ivy championship within reach, the Crimson understands the task that remains ahead. A dangerous Columbia team will try to dash Harvard’s hopes this Saturday in the Crimson’s final home game of the season. “We’re confident in the way we play,” Harms said. “But it?...
...Little Havana have been changing dramatically - and non-Cuban Latinos like Basurto, who hails from Guayaquil, Ecuador, don't feel so much like the minority they were when he arrived in this country a decade ago. Basurto, in fact, has been feeling so emboldened of late that he went ahead and got his U.S. citizenship this year - and registered to vote the same...
...hour wait to vote at St. James United Methodist Church, one of the city's largest "Freedom Ward" polling places. He wore a kufi of African mudcloth design and a watch chain dangled from his trouser pocket. He had a hike of a mile and a half still ahead of him. "People walk further than that to vote in other countries - Americans are too soft," said Harry E. Brown. On the other hand, "the only reason I'd walk this far," he added, was for Barack Obama. "It's not because of the color of his skin - it's because...
...much-anticipated announcement, Scotland's finance secretary John Swinney gave Trump permission to go ahead with his $1.56 billion investment, overruling the local authority, Aberdeenshire council, which last year turned down Trump's development on the grounds that it would destroy the ecologically sensitive dunes...