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...this latest work. Cornwell is at risk of losing touch with what made her popular and won her so much well-deserved praise. Jim Carrey realized his dramatic shortcomings and scored with “Bruce Almighty”; Michael Jordan went back to winning basketball championships with the Chicago Bulls...
...because you have such a limited lifespan—such a limited shelf life.”After the Games, Cheek went on a college tour, traveling to campuses to create awareness about Darfur. He became a regularly requested keynote speaker, appearing at forums and conferences in cities like Chicago, New York, and Washington, D.C. And he continued to serve as a spokesperson for Right to Play and traveled to Zambia in the summer, with Jim Caple and an ESPN camera crew tagging along.“[ESPN was] interested only because Jenny Thompson and I, who were two Olympic...
...race, but because of it.” A refutation by Cass R. Sunstein ’75—a former colleague of Obama—in The New Republic’s Open University blog, extensively cites Obama’s credentials as a former University of Chicago Law School professor and a former president of the Harvard Law Review. He cites Obama’s personable character and sheer brilliance as the rallying causes behind McWhorter so-called “buzz.” McWhorter thinks Obama was elected because of his race and that this...
...steam. In a September poll of 600 likely voters, Blagojevich led Topinka 45% to 33%. "She just hasn't been able to capitalize on the negatives associated with the governor," said Jay Stewart executive director of the of the Better Government Association, a non-partisan watchdog group based in Chicago...
...range spending obligations that legislators have agreed to - for everything from Medicaid expenses to public employee pensions - kept her from looking like a serious contender. But in late August she took an important step in announcing a four-year revenue plan that depends on the controversial notion of opening Chicago's first casino to help provide billions of dollars for public schools and property tax relief. Topinka, like Blagojevich, has been averse to raising sales or income taxes to generate revenue, though the challenger insists she wouldn't rule out those measures as a last resort...