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Between Clinton and Obama, the differences are of degree and style. Clinton has offered more specifics, particularly on health care. For Obama, wonky proposals obviously aren't the core of his appeal--although he has been more explicit than Clinton about raising taxes on the rich. Both voted against the Central American Free Trade Agreement in 2005, but neither is what you'd call an anti-free-trade activist. Clinton, it appears, would be likelier to enter the White House with big legislative proposals ready to roll. Obama might be better at forging the compromises needed to turn them into...
While trying to appeal to liberal primary voters, though, she tried to get to Obama's left. As a state senator, Obama had voted "present" on a bill that gave legal protections to neonates who survive abortions. She said he should have voted no. He said his vote was part of a strategy worked out by the bill's opponents. Opposition to this type of pro-life legislation is, however, well to the left of public opinion. After all, similar federal legislation passed the Senate unanimously. Clinton had the political sense to vote yes. But back then she was positioning...
...heart burns just like a flame’ the best simile he could think of?” With moments like these, it’s hard to take the record seriously. While once lauded for his anthemic appeal, Lenny Kravitz seems to have lost most of his prowess. It couldn’t have gone the way of his libido—the rocker recently announced his three-year abstention from sex—because Kravitz hasn’t produced anything close to an anthem in a long, long time. “Are You Gonna...
...same purpose.At first glance, Ducharme’s photographs are strikingly bold, reminiscent of finely detailed portraits. The magnification of the dolls’ faces to ten times their original size, combined with a serious enhancement of color manipulated through the use of Photoshop, creates a larger-than-life appeal that resonates with the spirituality said to be embodied within the dolls. Ducharme says he chose to focus primarily on the katsinas’ masks, or faces, because the Hopi themselves concentrated their efforts largely on the details of the dolls’ heads. A doll can represent a katsina...
Students often enter college with an interest in science, Lue says, but then realize that there are fields which they had never previously encountered that appeal to them...