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...site. “The war may appear to have ceased, but it will cost us more to restore the hope and happiness that used to take place in this nation” said Julian J. Atim, a Ugandan physician and human rights activist. Speaking to the crowd assembled in Boston Common after the walk, Atim said that students could help the cause simply by making phone calls and forwarding e-mails, even without attending events like the GuluWalk...
...This year, the Yalies come to Harvard Stadium, line up for the opening kickoff, and then the team sees the crowd, sees our daunting squad, and sizes up its odds. Then, they all poop their pants. Ewwwwww! The second-squad comes on, and they poop their pants...
...much sums up the entire race with just a week remaining: McCain is having to spend what little money and time he has left to defend the ground he thought he had locked up months ago. In Prince William County, about 30 miles south of Washington, he told a crowd of around 10,000 that electing Barack Obama would bring a new wave of socialism to the U.S. "America didn't become the greatest nation on earth by giving our money to the government to 'spread the wealth around,'" he said outside the county government headquarters in Woodbridge. "In this...
...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...
Already, local anticipation is brimming over. It wasn't just the press crowding to see the candidate outside his grandmother's apartment. "I appreciate him visiting his grandmother," says Arthur Witherspoon of Honolulu, who stood outside Dunham's apartment on Friday within the crowd of about 100 people. "It shows character," says Norma Parado, who lives half of each year in Honolulu, "I'm so glad he's here doing this. He's paused his campaigning for family. That's the kind of person you want leading our country...