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...Mumbai. He brought with him his assistant, a chatty, young aspiring actress whose main responsibility is answering the thousand or so fan letters he receives every week. They were preparing for his next speaking engagement, an address at a university in Baroda in western India where he expected a crowd of at least 8,000. It is hard to imagine any author - besides, say, J.K. Rowling - as the object of so much adulation. In his rumpled white shirt, and with a slight paunch and wire-rimmed glasses, Bhagat looks much more like an overworked investment banker (in fact...
Americans have shown a taste for divided government in recent decades but maybe not as divided as the early years of a McCain presidency would be. The Republican President would face not only a crowd of resentful Democrats on Capitol Hill but also deep splits within his own party. The closing weeks of McCain's campaign produced a soap opera of Republican dysfunction. McCain gambled his hopes on a bold move to pass a Wall Street rescue plan. House Republicans cut him loose and defeated the bill, sending the stock market crashing and swinging the momentum to Obama. A steady...
...Just before midnight, Obama concluded his remarks, and the two men hugged, shook hands, waved with their arms around each other and worked the crowd in tandem. It is expected to be their first and last appearance together before Election Day. Perhaps this brief union between Bill Clinton and Barack Obama is something of a shotgun political marriage, but tonight, at least, they effectively mimed bliss...
Standing backstage at the convention when he was giving his speech and looking at that crowd and thinking back to the four days we'd had before where I think we clearly defined what this race was about, what he was about; I was feeling good that day. I also think, in a weird way, that Monday, whatever it was, Sept. 15th, when the financial crisis really erupted and Senator McCain said that the fundamentals of the economy were strong, that was a pretty decisive moment in this campaign. I think that kicked off a couple of weeks where...
...both Pittsburgh and Philadelphia over the past couple of days to make his closing arguments. "John McCain's ridden shotgun as George Bush's driven this economy towards a cliff, and now he wants to take the wheel and step on the gas," the Illinois Senator told a wet crowd of 9,000 outside of Philadelphia on Tuesday...