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...Colombia, as well as a rift that he sees in American literature between different views of characterization. Wood said he designed his book for “hybrid readers like myself, a bit of commonness and a bit of uncommonness.” This description proved apt for the crowd that had gathered to hear Wood’s talk last night. Though attended by few Harvard students, the lecture was packed with aspiring writers and local fans, who scribbled in notebooks or flipped through books as they waited for him to arrive. “He?...
...loved when I would wear this green shirt.” Li described seeking out Cai even before meeting him. “I confess that I Facebook-friended him before freshman year because I thought he was cute,” Li said, eliciting laughter from the crowd. The pair started going out during their first year at Harvard. Li said that their first official date was in downtown Boston, where they went ice skating. “He didn’t know how to skate,” Li reminisced, “but he was happy...
...reference to Obama's controversial association with William Ayers, a former '60s radical, was enough to stoke the volunteers at McCain's campaign office in Gainesville. "He won't salute the flag," one woman said, repeating another myth about Obama. She was quickly topped by a man in the crowd, wearing a polo shirt embroidered with "I Love America," who called out, "We don't even know where Senator Obama was really born." (Actually, we do. It's Hawaii.) Frederick beamed: "You need to go out and tell people that from your hearts," he said as he sent the volunteers...
...making sure that businesses look out for workers and play by the rules. "That's how we've always grown the American economy - from the bottom up," Obama said. "John McCain calls this socialism. I call it opportunity, and there is nothing more American than that." And the crowd raised the steel roof of the Mellon Arena...
...teeth giving an unforgettable speech at the Democratic convention in Boston four years ago. When Obama stood before his party elders and declared that "there's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America," he was talking to a crowd of party faithful inflamed with hatred for George W. Bush and eager to fight every campaign as an all-out war on the Republican Party: crush them, flay them, eat their children. It was a first chance to see who were his potential friends and who would be his enemies...