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...rally, John McCain must wait to go onstage, while she is still being mobbed at the rope line. In Lee's Summit, Mo., when he attacks Barack Obama as being "wrong for America," the crowd ignores him and chants her name instead. The line to enter a Lancaster, Pa., event winds half a mile through a parking lot, where thousands wait as long as 90 minutes to get a glimpse of her. After driving almost an hour to attend her first political rally ever, Suzanne Cook of Coatesville, Pa., offers an explanation: "The fact that she's a woman...
...thinking behind the event was simple: Let's bring together scores of thinkers and leaders in government, business and the nonprofit world to trade ideas for solving our greatest challenges through national service and civic engagement. Our partners have been formidable. The organizers include Alan Khazei of Be the Change, Michael Brown of City Year and John Bridgeland of Civic Enterprises. Joining me as co-chairs are Vartan Gregorian, president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York; Alma Powell, who runs America's Promise Alliance; Bill Novelli, CEO of AARP; Laysha Ward, president of Community Relations and the Target Foundation...
...their parties, John McCain and Barack Obama would separately and in turn discuss their vision for national service--and how they would try to inspire the country with that vision. It is a tribute to their commitment to this issue that they both agreed to participate in the event with only seven weeks to go before Election Day. In back-to-back interviews, they agreed to answer questions presented by me and PBS political editor Judy Woodruff--and by you, via questions submitted online in the days before the event...
...have become a more vocal supporter of environmental policies in recent years. Was there any particular event that prompted this change? Saleem H. Ali, BURLINGTON...
Faust, who was introduced as “sister president” by J. Lorand Matory ’82, a professor of African and African American studies, recalled last year’s party, when she had said she hoped the event would outgrow the venue...