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...watching politics for 13 years now, and the one thing that’s really impressive this cycle is the motivation of the youth vote,” he said. “I never could figure out why the 18 to 24 age demographic didn’t catch fire beforehand and why they were reluctant to get involved.” “When I was at Washington University [in St. Louis], the atmosphere was electric,” Halcro added. “The student body was unbelievable in terms of its enthusiasm for the election...
...vagaries of life on the American road, and a talent that extended beyond fictional features to concert films and documentaries. In their day, Citizen's Band, Melvin and Howard, Something Wild and Married to the Mob had about them a sort of humane nuttiness, an ability to catch the fun and shrewdness of ordinary, if hard-pressed, folks without ever patronizing their goofiness. He was the most pleasure-loving and pleasure-giving of directors...
...trip to Japan, South Korea and Thailand, promoting international exchange. “It’s kind of hard for students to believe that this sort of program exists,” said Austin Oehlerking, representing the fellowship. “They think there’s a catch...
...House GOP leaders may have done more damage to their members' electoral chances. When McCain gets a cold - Obama now holds his widest leads yet in many polls - his coattails get pneumonia. After trailing Democrats in generic matchups for most of the year, early last month Republicans started to catch up, coming within 3 percentage points of the Democrats in a CNN/Opinion Research poll. The latest poll, however, done Sept. 19-22 - after Paulson's emergency request but before the failed vote - shows the Democrats have widened that lead to 14 percentage points...
...evidenced by the handful of countries that practice them, catch-share programs remain controversial. In New Zealand, where they've been in place for decades, fishermen complain that the practice leads to unfair consolidation: as large companies buy and amass quotas, smaller operators can't compete with the low prices those big firms can afford to set because they're selling more. Others have raised concerns about the privatization of what has traditionally been considered a public resource. But Knapp says the biggest problem with fish quotas is figuring out how to allocate them fairly in the first place...