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...riders ascend single file to street level at the speed of treacle on a winter day - a pace that allows for feeble eyes to adjust to the rising step and for a firm grip on both red rubber handrails. Here in "Grannies' Harajuku" (an ironic reference to a nearby district famous for its nubile trendsetters and fashion pranksters), slow is the operative word. Heads in the crowd are gray and silver, not black, pink or red. Glasses are for seeing, not for being seen. Shoes are comfortable and underwear is long. Even when the weather is windy and bitterly cold...
...will not confine myself to the comfort of speaking only to those who agree with me," he said after winning the Virginia, Maryland and District of Columbia primaries. "I will make my case to all the people." Nearly a week later, he was even more direct about his aims: "We'll be competing everywhere, including the state of California...
...site, Lessig08.org. The goal of this movement, he said, is to get politicians to agree to refuse money from lobbyists, ban “earmarks” and support public financing of campaigns. Lessig said he will decide whether to make his run by March 1. The district in which Lessig would make a bid—California’s 12th—stretches from the south of San Francisco to San Mateo. The seat opened up when its former occupant, Democrat Thomas P. Lantos, who had held the seat since 1981, died earlier this month. A special election...
...record. Some of Obama's most popular lines of the night bashed President Bush as the crowd - estimated variously at between 15,000 to 30,000 - listened rapturously for almost an hour. A jumbo screen broadcast his image down Congress Avenue, not far from the city's nightclub district, and one homemade sign read: "The Beginning Is Near...
...Texas' uniquely complex contest. It is actually a hybrid system made up of both a primary, where the bulk of the state's 228 Democratic delegates are decided, and an evening caucus. Further clouding matters is that delegates are not awarded proportionally along congressional district lines, but instead are done based on state senate districts, with areas that had higher turnout in recent presidential and gubernatorial elections getting bonus delegates. That could mean that Obama could snag more delegates than expected by doing well in places like inner-city Houston and liberal Austin, while Clinton's supposed advantage with Latinos...