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...single characteristic. With over one hundred images, this project reinforced the usefulness of the convention as a place to see and understand the incredible variety of people who compose the Democratic Party today. This tangible evidence ranged from portraits of John Lewis, a congressman and leader of the Civil Rights Movement; to delegate Bill Walsh, a former casino owner, cowboy, and catholic priest from South Dakota; to a Laotian couple who married in the United States but grew up hiding in the jungle and living in refugee camps before emigrating to America. Portraits also included a famous musician, several Hollywood...
...that the mood in the boys' locker room has sharpened from towel-snapping to punch-throwing, Maddow might be just the sweet sister the place needs. Aside from having articulate, exhaustively researched opinions on everything from al-Qaeda to AIDS, she's cheerful, careful and civil. She has strong opinions but doesn't like forcing her interview subjects, or her listeners and viewers, to reach for the heart medication. As an MSNBC guest, she's often been paired with - or, as she says, "chained at the ankle to" - right-winger Pat Buchanan; yet they get along fine in their adversarial...
...Hong Kong's democrats were also running without two of their most stalwart figures. Martin Lee, founder of Hong Kong's Democratic Party, and Anson Chan, a popular former top civil servant, both declined to run for reelection in order to make way for a younger generation of democrats. According to City University's Sung, their absence may have contributed to the depressed voter turnout. "I think after the election, pan-democrats have to think why turnout was lower than the expected," says Sung of the democrats' current disunity. "People are unhappy because there are too many small mountains...
...This is civil disobedience at its finest.' MEGAN DAVY, Chicago resident, after hundreds of high school students skipped their first day of classes to protest financial disparities in Illinois' public education...
...protection may be insufficient for a low-lying city in a bowl, especially if seas keep rising and wetlands keep collapsing into the Gulf. "New Orleans still faces a higher level of risk from flooding than would be acceptable for other engineered life-protection systems," the American Society of Civil Engineers concluded in a report commissioned by the Corps. "Another Katrina-like hurricane is inevitable...