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...proposed closure of the surfing museum that sounded the loudest alarms. It immediately unleashed a tidal wave of response from surfers worldwide and sparked an emotional campaign to keep the museum afloat. "It came out of the blue. We had no idea," says Dan Young, 55, of the Santa Cruz Surfing Club Preservation Society, which is spearheading a campaign to save the institution. "My phones started ringing. E-mails started flying. We basically said, 'Hell, no! This ain't gonna happen!" (See 10 things to do in San Francisco...
...surf-museum campaign also inspired community support to save the other threatened properties. At a Jan. 13 meeting, the city council unanimously approved the various plans to keep them all open until June 30. But it also warned the community organizations, including Young's society, that they would have to keep raising money to keep the doors open longer than that...
...ceremony. That will continue again this year when megachurch pastor Warren delivers the invocation and the Rev. Joseph Lowery, an African-American Evangelical, offers the benediction. At a time when the United States is more religiously diverse than at any other point in its history, and Obama's entire campaign was built on the notion of a newfound inclusiveness and multiculturalism, it seems a glaring omission. (See TIME's special report on civil rights and the Obama presidency...
...Many believe the Obama campaign was naive about Warren's political agenda heading into the Saddleback forum. "They hadn't done their research on Warren," says one progressive religious figure. "Obama wasn't prepared for the Saddleback thing at all, and Warren bushwhacked him." Likewise, Obama's senior staff was not aware of Warren's most recent controversial comments - including his comparison of homosexuality to incest and his belief that the President of Iran should be assassinated - when they signed off on his selection for the Inauguration...
...Obama's foreign policy campaign rhetoric was welcomed by Latinos tired of Washington's obsession with the drug war, free trade and democratic elections as panaceas for a continent still plagued by one of the world's worst gaps between rich and poor. Democratic elections are of course a good thing. But "if we want to win the hearts and minds of people in Caracas, Jakarta, Nairobi or Tehran," Obama wrote in his 2006 book, The Audacity of Hope, "dispersing ballot boxes will not be enough. We'll have to make sure that the international rules we're promising enhance...