Word: boothe
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...Cambridge organizers imported the name from Munich’s storied event, they didn’t necessarily import the spirit: unlike Bavaria’s legions of inebriated revelers, Harvard Square was filled more with young families. Indeed, the Square’s streets were lined with booths hosted by the likes of Amnesty International. “They actually recruited me here last year,” said Helen Morgan, a volunteer with Amnesty’s local chapter.A giant hot air balloon floated above Cambridge Common, offering rides to people who donated to charities such...
There's still time to change again, for doubts to resurface, for suspicions to harden. And voters may say one thing to pollsters and do another in the voting booth. Yet at this late stage of the campaign, after dozens of interviews across this toss-up state, evidence suggests that the issue that once seemed as if it would dominate this election - Obama's race - is not consuming the people who will actually decide...
...always comes down to a knife fight in a telephone booth.' CHRIS LEHANE, Democratic political consultant, on the inevitability of negative attacks at the end of presidential campaigns...
...We’re guessing that depends on your definition of fun.) And for the attendees who were actually worried about, you know, getting a job, OCS had a remedy: the fair featured the appropriately-named Relaxation Station, which featured a fishing booth and the promise of a slinky to any successful fisherman. “It’s the place for you to channel your inner kindergartner,” said Robin E. Mount, the interim director of OCS. Forget about your lack of employment prospects and pick up some Play...
...course, Obama has another, equally arbitrary and more dismaying variable about which to worry: the so-called Bradley effect. The thinking is that white voters might consciously or unconsciously conceal latent racial biases from pollsters, but be swayed by those biases in the booth. These days I’d like to think Obama is Kennedy to McCain’s Nixon, the handsome and clever candidate of the future. But there’s no guarantee he won’t be Jesse Jackson to McCain’s Michael Dukakis...