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Still, fans of the Crimson should not expect an outcome as lopsided as last week’s drubbing of the Big Green...
...been there two years before, on his previous Iraq trip--same gym, same base. We walked in, not sure what to expect, and the gym was packed. He sort of teed up the basketball, and it was in the air, and I thought there's no way this is going in. And the next thing you know--swish!--and the whole place just went crazy. He came over to me and just sort of smiled, and he said, "I knew I was going to make it." Mark Lippert, Obama's top foreign-affairs staffer in the Senate...
...economic crisis, it may be difficult to maintain institutions like Spare Change. HEP relies more upon contributions than sales for publication. Going forward, these contributions will inevitably decline—as HEP Operations Director Randal Eck said, “If you just got laid off, would I really expect you to give me the $500 you gave last year? No.” On top of this hardship, the paper’s primary benefactor—a member of the Buffet family who donates $40,000 a year—has been alienated by Spare Change?...
...private moment to say hello, and Barack Obama, intruded upon in a place he'd probably come to get away from people like us, could not have been more friendly and engaged; we felt we could have talked burgers - and places and books - with him all day. But you expect that of a politician, whose livelihood depends on winning hearts. The more remarkable thing, we both felt, was that this sparkling stranger was so much like the kind of people we meet in Paris, in Hong Kong, in the Middle East: difficult to place and connected to everywhere. Like...
...provisional ballots and military voters. While both sides expressed confidence, that the outstanding ballots would turn their way, they acknowledged they'd remain in campaign mode until a winner is announced. However, if there's no clear-cut winner from this round of voting, a situation some local experts expect, Georgia voters will head back to the polls on December 2, in a race that could help inch the Democrats closer to a supermajority in the Senate. "In the next few weeks, Georgia will be the center of the electoral universe," says Charles S. Bullock, a political science professor...