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Despite their camaraderie, they will soon be forced apart. After filling the hall in Lancaster, McCain went outside, climbed onto a platform and addressed the hundreds of supporters who never made it inside. "I'm grateful that you are here," he said into a microphone. "I'm not going to let you down." But as he stepped down to work the rope line, the chants--"Sa-rah! Sa-rah! Sa-rah!"--had already started up again, even though she was nowhere in sight...
...roads aren’t all romance and freedom. There are places of deep, persistent poverty and places where all the interesting things have been paved over. In others, the pavement is falling apart. Questions beyond ones about the integrity of bridges—ones about the integrity of our society or the role of the educated class in it—remain stubborn and troubling...
Gates said he noticed a disturbing trend where faculty and administration hung apart from students...
...Apart from their constitutionality, of course, the other question surrounding curfews is whether they are effective. Bernard Harcourt, author of Language of the Gun: Youth, Crime, and Public Policy, argues that good police work is the better answer. He compares imposing curfew ordinances to "using a Band-Aid on a patient who is hemorrhaging - you might be able to stop the blood flow in one spot, but it's not going to help the bleeding." Problems like drug use, gun possession and gang membership, he insists, won't go away "just because you force youths to stay at home...
They are a point or two apart in the polls. They seem to shadow each other from battleground state to battleground state. And now they are hurling words at each other like longshoremen...