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...Corbin said. Reverend Chaplain Mark D. W. Edington made a similar appeal. “This is not a religious service, nor by any means a funeral it is a remembrance and a call to action,” he said. Throughout the vigil, many audience members bore solemn faces and had tears in their eyes. “It is uplifting to see so many people care so much about people so far removed from our daily lives, it shows hope for them and for us,” said Owais Siddiqui...
...weeks-in polling blips-rather than months or years. This has been a terrible thing: Presidents need to be thinking past the horizon, as Jimmy Carter belatedly proved. Some of his best decisions-a strict monetary policy to combat inflation, a vigorous arms buildup against the Soviet threat-bore fruit years after he left office and were credited to his successor, Ronald Reagan. But then, Carter was among the worst recent Presidents as a Permanent Campaigner...
...acoustics), all seats are filled for most shows.”The account could not speak more clearly or tragically. Where the air tastes like age and the band sounds like conceit framed by a stage and respectable album sales, Death Cab played on Tuesday for thousands. The carpets bore the stains of too many feet and the paint weighed heavy on the walls. And by the aisles, burly security guards wearing orange vests, arms crossed like shields over their chests made sure that no one stood in the walkways and that fervent fans didn’t overstep their...
...much-criticized handling of that crisis lowered that support even more. But Republicans, who have long suggested that Bush's policies on education and home ownership will one day win black support, haven't given up. Tuesday, one of their strategies-getting more high-profile black GOP candidates-bore fruit when, after months of encouragement from top Republican officials, Maryland Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele entered the 2006 Senate race...
...fulsome section on telephone and recording etiquette includes advice on ending a tedious call (hang up when you are speaking, not the bore) and disconnection (the person who placed the call should re-call). This seems obvious, as does the reminder that an answering machine means you don't have to pick up on every call...