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Working-class champion vs. faculty-club favorite is a Democratic chestnut. Obama descends from a long line of forefathers: Jerry Brown, Gary Hart, Paul Tsongas, Bill Bradley, Howard Dean. Principled, bookish, often aloof--nearly every campaign produces one, and they'd all be President if Presidents were chosen by the salons at Charlie Rose's round table. But Presidents are, in fact, chosen over the dinner tables of ordinary folks, who have an enduring immunity to the charms of such candidates. Obama, however, is a debugged and turbocharged version of the old model; he is expanding the affluent constituency...
...review committee’s objectives. Much of the night’s discussion centered on the student body’s communication with the administration, House committees, and the UC. “Students frequently feel that they have not been consulted,” said Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd, a committee member. Kidd added that the administration would like to know which issues most concerned students. Participants voiced a similar disconnect between the UC and the student body. “The UC has not stayed in contact with its constituents as much...
...they view as priorities? What are they willing to give up and get? What’s important to them?” In response, many students emphasized the importance of food taste, quality, nutritional value, and appearance—leaving sustainability as a lower concern, said council member Dean A. Wright, director of Brigham Young University dining services. Wright added that the council seeks to bring together individuals from a diversity of backgrounds who can offer the widest range of perspectives on student dining. “We all care about you having a great experience...
...there is nothing the Democrats would like to do more than portray McCain as a rank hypocrite, someone who has sidled up to George W. Bush and flip-flopped on torture, all for political gain - which is exactly what Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean claimed in March. "It is shameful that George Bush and John McCain lack the courage to ban torture," Dean said in a statement. "And it is reprehensible that McCain changed his position on torture just to win an election...
...Dean's statement, distributed in a press release, was a political attack meant to raise questions among independent voters. And as with most political attacks, it turned a grain of truth into a misleading landslide of overheated accusation. A review of the record shows that McCain has neither changed his position on torture nor taken sides with President Bush on the substance of the issue. But at a time when new details are emerging of the Administration's intimate involvement with formulating specific detainee interrogation practices, the Arizona Senator does now find himself in the uncomfortable position of agreeing with...