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...coordinate a network of private-sector venture-capital funds to be matched with federal grants to support job-retraining or vocational-training efforts in schools and targeted communities where job loss persists. I will seek more students in community service through the Federal Work-Study Program, and I will expand opportunities for service overseas for all Americans...
First, we need to create opportunities to serve. I'll ask more young people to serve in uniform and expand the size of our military. And I'll increase AmeriCorps--our network of local, state and national service programs--from 75,000 slots...
...Obama may believe in investing in a mandate to govern - helping to expand Democrats in Congress and in local and municipal races - but that won't matter a whole lot if he fails to win the presidency. "This 50-state strategy, I hope it's real," says Bill Steiner, the RNC's director of strategy. "But I actually think what it's for is to cover up some of their weakness in targeted states like Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Ohio. States that Democrats can't afford to lose. This is about quality vs. quantity...
...June the 39 Clues team got a major boost: DreamWorks acquired the film rights, with Steven Spielberg planning to produce and direct. "The 39 Clues takes creative leaps to expand the story experience from the pages of the books to multiple stages of discovery and imagination," Spielberg said, in an uncharacteristically robotic statement. "We have the opportunity to develop this property that says 'film,' 'family,' 'fun' and 'franchise...
...those party faithful who attended the Republican National Convention this week. But with fewer than 60 days until Election Day (and a month before the start of early voting in many states), the McCain campaign's continued courting of the more traditional base spells trouble for any efforts to expand his appeal to independent voters and less conservative Evangelicals. If so, McCain may find himself quoting a bowdlerized verse of Scripture in November: What does it profit a man to gain the Christian right and lose the White House...