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Several thousand people turned out for the rally, which included presentations from four Congressmen and testimonials from a janitor, a doctor, a security officer, and a nurse. The event was sponsored by Organizing for America, which President Obama founded in Jan. to advance his administration’s policy agenda, and the progressive advocacy group, Health Care for America...
...this year. After being named a semifinalist for the Hermann Trophy—awarded to the top collegiate soccer player—last season, the Missouri Athletic Club put Akpan on its watch list for this season. Akpan was also named in College Soccer News’ Preseason All-America First Team and Soccer America’s Preseason All-America Team, and was tabbed by ESPN as a top contender for the Hermann Trophy.Akpan came back to campus looking particularly sharp following a summer in which he played for the Chicago Fire’s Premier Development League squad...
...20th century, white was the uniform of choice for Americans well-to-do enough to decamp from their city digs to warmer climes for months at a time: light summer clothing provided a pleasing contrast to drabber urban life. "If you look at any photograph of any city in America in the 1930s, you'll see people in dark clothes," says Scheips, many scurrying to their jobs. By contrast, he adds, the white linen suits and Panama hats at snooty resorts were "a look of leisure...
Much to the chagrin of sartorial purists, that skepticism of the Labor Day law has seeped into mainstream America. From 1960s counterculture to the present day - when would-be fashionistas get as many ideas from blogs and friends as from magazines and Fashion Week - more people than ever are breaking the rule. Even the 2004 manners bible, Emily Post's Etiquette, 17th Edition, gives the go-ahead for wearing white after Labor Day. Which may explain why some who abide by the custom themselves are now willing to compromise. Scheips, for one, "would never be caught dead wearing a white...
With the health-care debate essentially on hiatus during Congress' final week of recess, Obama's back-to-school speech to America's children, scheduled to air at noon E.T. Tuesday, on C-Span and Whitehouse.gov., became a tempest in an empty news cycle - or at least the letter from the Department of Education announcing the speech did. The missive urged principals and teachers to have their students write letters to themselves about how they could assist the President, a request that some saw as an attempt to inject politics into the classroom. Jim Greer, Florida's GOP party chairman...