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...performer in 2007. Before Brown’s game on Wednesday, the shortstop led the squad with four home runs and 29 RBI. Senior J.J. Eno, who has a .315 average and is second on the team with three dingers and 24 RBI, is also a major factor. Freshman catcher Matt Colantonio leads the club with a .396 average.“I recognize that they got a pretty good hitting lineup, but when you’re losing, you don’t look at stats,” Walsh said...
Maybe the cringe factor would have been less had Obama not been speaking in San Francisco, a regional headquarters for secular condescension, or at a private fund raiser, where the rich and powerful gather for shrimp and special access; or if Obama, a comfortably devout Christian, had not said that "bitter" small-town voters "cling" to their faith, along with their guns and their "antipathy to people who aren't like them." By any measure, it was a graceless move to characterize an entire demographic group--and vital voting bloc--as irrational and bigoted. And it came from a candidate...
...many of them were hunters--who began to drift from the Democratic Party in the turbulent 1960s and later became the margin of victory for Ronald Reagan. They have never fully returned to the Democratic fold and as a result have become less and less of a factor in its primary politics. Among those who remain with the Democrats, the core of this group tends to be older and female, the demographic most attuned to the 60-year-old Clinton. And of course, race is a factor too, though it is one that is impossible to measure. Governor Ed Rendell...
...ordinary citizens taking an active role in improving their country’s situation. “The people must lead,” says Uys, “and the government will follow.”This faith in the actions of individual citizens has been a driving factor in Uys’ work. In the mid-90s, when the severity of the AIDS epidemic became apparent, Uys began visiting schools in South Africa to educate young people about contraceptive use. His performances are entirely free and were a crucial service to schools that lacked funding for such programs.Uys...
...fellowships from 14 to 28, hire a full-time public interest director to counsel students, and increase funding for summer public interest opportunities, according to a statement Koh sent to the law school community. “Our philosophy has always been that money not be the sole deciding factor in a student’s choice of a public interest position during any phase of his or her career,” said Janet Conroy, a spokeswoman for the law school. “We also feel strongly that it’s important to promote a culture...