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...Bush and Barack Obama were remarkably civil in their Oval Office summit. They had never engaged in hand-to-hand combat. Despite the loathing for Bush that animates many in his party, Obama ran less against the man than his record. Bush, apparently in an undisclosed location throughout Campaign 2008, seldom had a bad word to say about Obama, beyond privately dismissing him as a naive lefty. He called Obama's victory a "triumph of the American story, a testament to hard work, optimism and faith in the enduring promise of our nation." Obama's team has been quick...
...pictures of Barack Obama's campaign behind the scenes...
...people, far more than authorities had expected, marched through Hillcrest, the hub of San Diego's gay community. Many opponents of the measure blamed religious groups for the its passage, particularly the Mormon church, which one source estimated had donated some $15 million to promote Prop. 8; campaign records, however, showed far less. Meanwhile, in Connecticut, where a gay-marriage ban was lifted in October, same-sex couples began obtaining marriage licenses...
...That opener is the first in a long campaign the seniors hope will end in the NCAA tournament in March. Expectations are high, with the team picked fourth in the preseason Ivy League media poll. But the expectations are unlikely to go to the heads of the seniors, as before their freshmen campaign, the team—with another talented senior class—was picked to finish second in the league. Harvard rewarded those expectations with eight straight league losses in February and March to finish closer to the bottom than...
...Even as a historic presidential campaign spent months demonstrating the need for unity and the fruitlessness of the divisive politics of morality, the states seem to be picking sides on the intractable issue of same-sex marriage. More troubling than the simple passage of Proposition 8 in California are the national reverberations such an event might trigger. Even the thwarted opponents of gay marriage in the state of Massachusetts might take heart and be reinvigorated in light of this development...