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...flow, flashing his gleaming smile intermittently. McCain’s speech had the flow of a traffic jam in a snow storm, as he confused syntax and became short of breath. This stuff matters. McCain argued like he was down in the polls. On the other hand, you could almost see Obama thinking the line that made Reagan famous: “There you go again.” Running for the American presidency is unlike any other job and its application process is accordingly unique. On Nov. 4, America will not just elect talking points, ten-part plans...
...reduction in military bases stationed abroad and said that neither Barack Obama nor Sarah Palin is qualified to be president. While the debate didn’t devolve into character attacks, there was plenty of disagreement among participants. Dasher, an Obama supporter, and Cavedon, a McCain fan, disagreed on almost every issue. “I think Matt’s hand went up the moment Grant started talking,” Lomazoff said at one point. Later in the debate, Cavedon prefaced one of his responses with, “I wholeheartedly agree with Grant...
This year, almost 900 first-year students at Baylor University in Texas retook their SATs. No, this was not a grading mistake. It was because Baylor wanted to boost its ranking in U.S. News and World Report’s list of “Best Colleges.” Baylor incentivized freshmen with $300 at the campus bookstore to retake their SATs and offered $1,000 a year in scholarship aid to those who raised their scores by at least 50 points. Though seemingly cavalier and unethical, programs like this are products of the bizarre and destruction nature...
...terms of the candidates, Barack Obama holds an almost two-to-one lead over John McCain among young voters...
...population. While Walsh and hundreds of thousands of other Irish were making their way home, other, newer migration paths were being cut from China, Nigeria, Poland and many other countries. Between the late 1980s and today, the percentage of foreign-born residents in Ireland grew from around 1% to almost 12%. "People choose gaelscoileanna for all kinds of reasons, but realistically it would rarely be the first choice for newly arrived immigrants," says Colette Kavanagh, a principal at Esker Educate Together School in Lucan, a commuter town outside of Dublin...