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...University of Montana. The next day, Clinton outlined her case to 1,500 people at a fund raiser in an airport hangar. Obama drew 7,000 on May 19 at Montana State University in Bozeman. As in other places, many of his fans are young, noisy and eager to help...
...After growing up in St. Louis and attending an all-girls Catholic school, O’Reilly was eager to escape the confines of a conservative society when she came to Cambridge. “I was a square peg in a round hole,” she said. “I was in the wrong school, the wrong city. I was being raised to be a lady, which I certainly was not interested...
...They were determined to suppress any semblance of civil rights activities in the Boston schools—they were eager to get rid of me,” he said. “But like most Harvard graduates, I didn’t suffer long...
...America's foster-care system, 20,000 are available for adoption, most of them older children between the ages of 6 and 12. Among the adoptable children, 44% are white and 43% are black. But 67% of all families waiting to adopt are white, and many of them are eager to take a black child. The hurdles, however, are often formidable. Though only three states--Arkansas, California and Minnesota--have laws promoting race matching in adoptions, 40 others favor the practice...
...transracial adoption a third option behind preservation of biological African-American families and placement of black children in black homes. But this racial bias has long been opposed by many adoption advocates, who have recently found unlikely allies among conservative Republicans averse to any form of racial preference and eager to move children off government support...