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...kept climbing higher, looking at the audience with that sultry exhibitionist gaze but also reaching up, aiming for something more. It was thrilling and thought-provoking and beautiful, and it was pushing beyond all these into something else, a kind of constant striving. That didn’t just count as art, I realized, spellbound; it embodied it. —Staff writer Lois E. Beckett can be reached at lbeckett@fas.harvard.edu...
...years since, Latinos and African Americans have come to make up roughly half of the Lone Star Democratic electorate - and a majority of the state party's power brokers. Democrats control 13 of Texas' 32 congressional districts, and nine of those seats are occupied by minority lawmakers. Obama can count on strong support from African Americans in cities like Dallas and Houston, and that support will be amplified by the baroque rules under which Texas Democrats award delegates. To offset his advantage, Clinton must do extremely well with the Latino voters who dominate large parts of South Texas from...
With polls tightening and the arcane Democratic rules governing delegate allocation favoring Obama, Clinton will need a very strong showing in the popular vote to garner enough delegates to try to catch Obama in the overall count. For example, in 1988, when Gov. Michael Dukakis won in a four-way primary with 33% of the vote - with Rev. Jesse Jackson coming second with 25% - Dukakis got 72 delegates and Jackson 67. To get the delegate count she needs to make a Texas win count, most observers believe Clinton needs a 60%-plus win; to get that, she must hope that...
...want this current security leading to tangible sustainability." His point was echoed during the recent visit by Angelina Jolie, a U.N. goodwill ambassador, when she expressed concern for the millions of Iraqis affected by the war and stated a need for "a real presence here to help count the people and register the people" displaced by the conflict...
...security. For the handful of foreign NGOs currently in Baghdad the situation is frustrating, they say, because of the lack of direct contact with their Iraqi beneficiaries. "You are dependent on secondhand information - you could be in Amman or Washington or Paris," says Guy Siri, who says he can count the number of international aid agencies in Baghdad on one hand...