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...Crosby recalls an example of this from her undergraduate career at Stanford. The school's sports teams were called the Indians from 1930 to 1972, when the name was dropped because of protest from Native American students. Still, from time to time the former mascot would appear on t-shirts and paraphernalia - and each time it fell to Native American students to bring up their objections to the administration, Crosby says. "Why is it always their job?" she asks...
...beat almost never was where I thought it was,” Fleck told the audience as a clip of one of his jams sessions was screened. “I was often one-sixteenth off.” After his African adventure, Fleck effectively put his musical career on a three-year hiatus in order to edit the film, which will premiere at the South by Southwest music festival. Fleck claims that the whirlwind nature of his tour of Africa did not allow him to practice and internalize specific songs. “The music I learned in Africa...
...especially over the last two weeks, is essentially question my capacity. And so, if somehow she can discount my 20 years of experience working as a civil rights attorney or as a community organizer or as a state senator or as a United States Senator, and suggest that that career can be summed up in one speech, then I'm going to be interested in finding out what exactly she thinks makes her particularly well-prepared, for example, on foreign policy. When her advisors were on the phone after they had released this 3 a.m. phone call advertisement, somebody asked...
...this one issue related to Tony Rezko which everybody's been focused on, although there have been no allegations of any wrongdoing whatsoever. And this is something she keeps on pumping everyday to raise questions about my [record]. Well, I'll take that one episode in my long career and we can tally that up next to some of questions that she apparently thinks are relevant...
...miracle never came, but his career in public life is sure to continue. As he explained to me in Iowa, he ended up losing that student council election in seventh grade to the popular football player. But that never slowed him down. It only made him work harder. "There was always," he said, "something deep in me that knew I am going to have to work really hard to get up to where the other kids are." At the age of 52, Huckabee is not done...