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...Washington the test begins. As the only black Senator, Obama will face expectations that will be hard to fulfill--especially if he wants to be a national candidate someday. "My greatest fear for Barack is that he'll be in the background, another black face in the sea of whiteness," says Donna Brazile, a veteran strategist who ran Al Gore's campaign in 2000. For now, she says, "he doesn't have to become the next black leader. He has to become a great Senator from the state of Illinois...
...kinds of breathless hopes: black and white, red and blue. At rallies, people lean in to touch him, to whisper their thanks. The media often reduce his appeal to melting-pot Mad Libs, but no one raises a $14.3 million war chest just because he has an "unusual background." "I don't think that's by any stretch of the imagination the largest part of the story," says Ronald Walters, a former adviser to the Rev. Jesse Jackson. "You have to ask yourself, Why has this guy been so successful...
...Obama's background resonates because it proves his points. Like other young African-American politicians, from Congressmen Harold Ford Jr. of Tennessee to Artur Davis of Alabama, Obama doesn't sound like a civil-rights-era black politician. His style is, as he puts it, "not accusing but challenging Americans to live up to the highest ideals." Some call that pandering to whites. But it can appeal to blacks too. "When he talks, you don't think about his color," says Eric Robinson, an African-American barber from Decatur, Ill., at an Obama rally in October...
...Well, I will notice, and I will care.” And with that, I grabbed the mouse and redid the cutout, removing every last bit of the background until all that was left was a perfect silhouette of Steve Sandvoss, ready for the front page of the April 9, 2004 Arts section...
...Unfortunately, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is a threat to the other three. Jude branches out, playing a ’30s-clad narcissist who is also an action hero. The new territory Jude treads on in this film (placing his hotness against an all-digital background with scary robots and a dumber Gwyneth Paltrow than we’ve ever seen before) could make Sky Captain the winner...