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...days following John McCain's loss to Barack Obama, Steele declared on Fox News his interest in the RNC chairmanship - even though the sitting chair had not said he was leaving at the start of the new presidential Administration (and indeed, Mike Duncan was one of the candidates Steele defeated in Friday's vote). In a TIME interview during that period, Steele praised Obama's election as America's first black President. He made clear that as RNC chairman, he would move to temper the party's rigidity and truculence. In particular, one of the models he pointed...
...movie is an adaptation of Lois Duncan's 1971 young-adult novel of the same name. The character of Andi has been aged enough to cast the teen queen Roberts in the role. Roberts gives the impression of poise earned by experience rather than a natural gift, but by Hollywood standards, she is royalty - Julia Roberts is her aunt - and director Thor Freudenthal seems to have shot her accordingly, bathed in golden light. The family-in-peril angle is also a change from Duncan's story. While Andi and Bruce's kindly social-services caseworker Bernie (Don Cheadle, who could...
Will having an African American as President have any effect on the state of hip-hop culture? La-Toya Duncan, BROOKLYN...
...spending years developing a jump shot that Obama says is better than his own, Duncan has earned a reputation for an infallible work ethic...
...Isn’t that what great teachers, what great educators possess?” wrote Steve Bzomowski, who was Assistant Coach at Harvard when Duncan was on the varsity men’s basketball team, on his blog. “The unwavering belief that their pupils can and should and will succeed.” —Staff writer Vidya B. Viswanathan can be reached at viswanat@fas.harvard.edu...