Word: braun
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...Amber Braun, a 19-year-old freshman at the University of Minnesota, smiled widely as she exited the polling station here. But she said she might not have voted if activists hadn't briefed her yesterday on the voting procedure. The next morning, a line of roughly 50 students waited quietly to cast their first votes. Many, like Precious Gaddis, a junior and first time voter, were at the wrong polling station and left. Gaddis said someone at her apartment complex told her she could vote at the student union but was turned away there today. Meanwhile, students in line...
...little scary and I thought I was going to fill in the wrong bubble. They have pens," Braun said. "I just had an irrational fear...
...Moon, Alice Re your article on Mars: human exploration of the moon, Mars and beyond would restore national pride and bring purpose to our space program [Oct. 27]. If such visionaries as President John F. Kennedy, rocket designer Wernher von Braun and astronomer Carl Sagan were alive today, we probably would be walking on Mars by now. Let's keep the dream alive. Rick Schreiner, San Marino, California
...group's field of endeavor - community organizing - makes it a tempting target for GOP strategists. In Chicago in 1992, Obama headed the Project Vote campaign - an organization affiliated with ACORN - which registered 150,000 voters on the city's the south side and helped elect Carol Moseley Braun, the country's first female African-American Senator. As an attorney, Obama worked on the team of lawyers that represented ACORN in a 1995 lawsuit in which it accused the state of Illinois of violating federal polling laws, and spoke at two leadership training sessions for ACORN employees a few years later...
...players in international programs. It will provide $66 million to the project, while the Howard G. Buffett Foundation will give $9 million; another $750,000 will come from the Belgian government for aid programs only in the Democratic Republic of Congo. "It sets a very important example," says von Braun. It could also change the WFP itself from a purely humanitarian organization into one which helps poor farmers - and so ultimately weans millions off food aid. Says Shah of the Gates Foundation: "This is a market-based initiative." Open markets may be out of favor right now. But this...