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...This is not change. This is definitely more of the same.' ACLU executive director ANTHONY D. ROMERO, accusing President Barack Obama of reneging on his campaign promises to make government more transparent...
...White House etiquette is any indication, you should be getting a random hug soon. The Obama family was always cuddly on the campaign trail, and last month the President bestowed no fewer than nine hugs on senior male staffers at a single meeting. (See pictures of Barack Obama behind the scenes on Inauguration...
...manly shake-and-squeeze combo), the ass-out hug (an awkward ordeal that precludes genital contact) and, for someone you're really close to, the full frontal (your standard bear hug). The big squeeze has been on the rise at least since 2006, when the Free Hugs campaign exploded worldwide. It got another boost last year, when hikers from Ohio and Pennsylvania started the Hugs for Humanity project, walking across America to deliver a million hugs. And yet another when John McCain and Sarah Palin embraced, however stiffly, at campaign rallies...
...beginning of the viewing area behind the Washington monument. We were still over a mile from the Capitol steps on which the president-elect would take his oath. Here I broke off from my unticketed acquaintances. My older brother’s hard work on the New Hampshire senate campaign had left him with a purple standing room ticket, and his post-campaign travels in Cambodia left him unable to claim it. I made my way up parallel to Constitution Avenue, passing streets still populated by more police than civilians and eventually reaching the intersection at 7th Street. The time...
...beating and killing members of the MDC. After a general election on March 29, 2008, which the ruling Zanu-PF lost and in which Mugabe came in second to Tsvangirai in the presidential vote, security forces and their allies killed nearly 200 activists and injured thousands more in a campaign of terrorism across the country. Tsvangirai himself has been beaten more than once. Even after Mugabe and Tsvangirai agreed in principle to form a unity government last September, they haggled over the details for close to six months. As Tsvangirai himself reminded the crowd, hundreds of MDC supporters remain...