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...many ways these are Obama's last training days before the prizefight. The events - which have progressed west from Eau Claire, Wis., to Davenport, Iowa, and Kansas City, Mo., and move on to Billings, Mont., tomorrow - are modest affairs in which he can test messages and attacks on his opponent, John McCain. And his increasingly wonky, detailed tone is one he says audiences should expect to hear at the convention. "People know that I can give the kind of speech that I gave four years ago," Obama says. "They're more interested in what am I going...
...Davenport on Monday Obama went over pretty well with a group of 250 voters handpicked for their undecided status. There wasn't the fawning adulation and roaring waves of some Obama events, but the mostly older, white crowd left impressed. "I was surprised, given the convention, but I think it's great he's here," said David Ward, 58, a Vietnam veteran who is a veterans' advocate from Davenport. Ward said Obama's appearance, including his digs at McCain for being so out of touch that he didn't know how many houses he owned, "solidified" his vote. Obama "seems...
...arts student, ignited a media firestorm last week when she refused to acknowledge that her senior art project, in which she sought to regularly conceive and abort a slew of fetuses over the course of nine months, had actually been a hoax.Shvarts, a senior in Yale’s Davenport College, claims to have assembled a number of “fabricators” for her project who, at regular intervals in the last year, provided her with sperm samples which she injected into herself with needle-free syringes. At the end of each month, Shvarts would ingest an abortifacient...
...Lampoon. National Geographic designers helped the ’Poonsters lay out the issue and will be distributing 210,000 copies “strategically around the country” along with the real magazine, according to Ross E. Arbes ’08 and Hayes H. Davenport ’08-’09, who edited the spoof. The parody features fake letters to the editor—“RAAARRRRR!!!” comments a “Literate Bear”—and a facetious preview of the Beijing Olympics, presenting new events...
...After a miscue by Taylor Davenport at the Cornell blue line, Fraser picks up the pick and fires from the right side, but Scrivens makes a pad save...