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...drunk W. and his father almost come to blows: This scene was dramatized, but is based in fact. This "mano a mano" confrontation between father and son is a fairly well-known incident ... Over the Christmas holidays in 1972, by then twenty-six, George W. went to Washington to visit his family. "After Junior arrived at the house, he took his 15 year-old brother, Marvin, to a friend's house, where they both drank too much holiday cheer. On the way home, Junior struck and dragged a neighbor's garbage can noisily down the street before turning into...
...organize and motivate large groups of student volunteers to spend hours talking to undecided voters. Before November 4, Harvard College undergraduates will have travelled to battleground states as far away as North Carolina; both the Democratic and Republican communities on campus will have travelled to New Hampshire on almost a weekly basis. Phone banking events have generated a great deal of enthusiasm and interest; similarly, students across campus have tuned into the Presidential and Vice Presidential debates. As the election cycle reaches its highest point in the next few days, we hope to see these sorts of events continue...
...there was little uncomfortable tension before the start of the piece.The performance of the Bartók was lukewarm. In the first two sections (of six), the strings played deftly, but the winds’ sound didn’t blend well and the orchestra sounded thick and almost noisy. In the third section, an energetic dance influenced by Romanian folk tunes, the strings came alive, unified hearty. While the ensemble was well-balanced, its dynamics were often too strong; when the strings attempted to construct a delicate atmosphere, their sound lacked transparency. Zander gestured flamboyantly, seeming to believe...
...Greer felt compelled to convene a meeting of the party's state leadership in Tallahassee earlier this month to regroup. Sources say it yielded few solutions. A big GOP headache is Florida's ultra-fluid demographics. The state has one of the nation's largest hoards of independent voters, almost one-fifth of the electorate, EMS, and the centrist trend is creeping into once solid GOP bastions like Sarasota. Crossover Republicans like Geyer are news; but Sarasota Democrats can be just as averse to straight-ticket life. David Grain, 46, an African-American Democrat and the millionaire founder of Grain...
Anyone who has watched Robert Mugabe this year, as the 84-year-old dictator of almost three decades railed against colonial phantoms while stealing an election, ruining the economy and starving his people, might be tempted to take Zimbabwe as the story of Africa. But if Mugabe is the most famous living example of an African tyrant, evidence of a very different Africa has never been far away. Botswana, which shares a border with Zimbabwe, has for decades been mainland Africa's brightest star, a country that has gone from dustbowl poverty to middle income status in a generation, where...