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...every one of my Harvard memories ends with such heartbreak, but this moment was wrenching. My roommate, Mark Giangreco, and I looked back to see just how close we had come, before disappearing into the crowd as stadium event staff and members of the New Haven Police Department converged on our seats to reclaim the very much unharmed...
...taken a spiritual journey over the past decade, launched by the research he did for Born Fighting, his nonfiction paean to his all-American ethnic group, the Scots Irish. "When I started studying Andrew Jackson, I realized that I was really a Jacksonian populist Democrat," Webb tells the crowd. "Jackson believed that you don't measure the health of a society at the apex but at the base. I believe that too, and that's why I'm a Democrat." There are other reasons. Webb opposed the war in Iraq, and he was increasingly uncomfortable with Republican extremism on social...
...Despite the fact that his new book is still unfinished, the BookExpo crowd greeted the Senator from Illinois like a rock star, with a standing ovation at a sprawling official convention luncheon. His book is about the future of American democracy. His inspirational earlier book, "Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance," was a bestseller. In a BookExpo crowd of political types (Pat Buchanan, Arianna Huffington, Terry McAuliffe, and the like), Obama enjoyed triple the buzz. The celebrated keynote speaker's fame should take this more policy-oriented book...
Obama introduced Patrick to an adoring crowd of 2,000 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston. But first, the Illinois senator basked in the crowd’s love, pausing to shake hands with the crowd that swelled on either side of him. Upon reaching the podium, he exclaimed, “It’s great to be back in Boston...
...Updike spoke I looked from him to the crowd, and the scene was evocative of something I couldn't quite place. Then, as he came to his conclusion - "booksellers, defend your lonely forts" - it hit me: a white haired gentleman trying to halt something new because it runs against something established, urging the retrograde upon people who should know more than any others that retrogression is patently not in their interest. Novelist as colonist! A governor speaking to his soldiers. Guard your lonely forts indeed...