Word: dave
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After three years as a civil rights lawyer and law professor in Chicago, Obama was elected to the Illinois state senate and quickly established himself as different from most of the other African-American legislators. "He was passionate in his views," says state senator Dave Syverson, a Republican committee chairman who worked on welfare reform with Obama. "We had some pretty fierce arguments. We went round and round about how much to spend on day care, for example. But he was not your typical party-line politician. A lot of Democrats didn't want to have any work requirement...
...Dave Eggers grew up in Illinois, and Valentino Achak Deng grew up in southern Sudan, but they have something in common: they both, in different ways, lost their parents. Eggers wrote about his parents' death from cancer in his celebrated memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Deng was separated from his father and mother during the civil war that overtook Sudan when he was a child. He became one of Sudan's Lost Boys, a group of refugee children who trekked hundreds of miles overland in search of safety. He did not see his parents again for 17 years...
...find WMD in 2003, had his office call weapons inspector David Kay at 3 a.m. with advice on where to look. I used to make calls at 3 a.m., so I can imagine what Cheney might have said if he'd been on the line himself: "Just this once, Dave. I promise this time it'll be different. I'm a different person ... I have maps...
...special teams and defense and was one of the Seahawks’ most popular players in the seven seasons after the franchise made him a fourth-round pick in 2000. Kacyvenski missed Harvard Commencement in 2000 so he could make the team out of training camp; his father, Dave, accepted his diploma in a ceremony at Leverett House. Kacyvenski remains the highest-drafted NFL pick in Harvard history. The Seahawks dropped Kacyvenski to make room for backup running back Marquis Weeks. Regular Seattle running back Shaun Alexander sustained a foot injury on Sept. 24, triggering the move. Kacyvenski...
...there has been little outreach since the Crimson broke the news last week. According to men’s volleyball co-captain Dave Fitz, when fellow co-captain Laurence Favrot asked Nathan Fry—an Assistant Director of Athletics in charge of compliance—about how the men’s volleyball team would be affected, Fry said he didn’t know and suggested that Favrot make an appointment with the Athletic Department...