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...snowman, but here I am in front of you, still alive,” she said, as the audience chuckled.Royal reiterated many of the issues she had addressed on Monday, including equality of opportunity. “The Left cannot guarantee everyone success, but it must guarantee everyone a fair shot at it,” she said. “The point is not where we come from, but where we want to go together.” When it came to the question and answer period, both Royal and the audience employed a mixture of French and English...
...caucus format in Washington, Nebraska and Maine could help Obama, who has won six of the seven caucus states so far, thanks to his passionate, dedicated following and stronger grassroots organizations. "I think that it is fair to say that he should win the caucuses in Maine, Nebraska and Washington State on Saturday. For my own state of Louisiana, I would venture that Senator Obama should win here," said Kevin Mulcahy, a political science professor at Louisiana State University, who himself plans on voting for Clinton...
...reader laugh while writing about the Civil War. No one, even the fashionable lady mourner, is exempt from Faust’s wit. Everyone’s story—whether they’re a private or a general, a slave or a Harvard scholar—is fair game. Faust tells us about Walt Whitman’s attempts to nurse wounded soldiers, Clara Barton’s mission to exhume and identify the bodies of unknown soldiers, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.’s (if you were wondering, Class of 1836) search for his soldier...
...Washington, London and Brussels, concerns are growing about deteriorating conditions on the ground in Afghanistan. The usual bickering over the Alliance's perennial problem that some countries do less than their fair share is threatening to break out into a fresh round of transatlantic mud-slinging. "We have made no secret about it that there are certain allies that are in much more dangerous parts of the country, " U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said this week. And we believe very strongly there ought to be a sharing of that burden throughout the Alliance." NATO currently has about...
When he announced the changes back in October, Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling admitted that they might only bring in an additional $1.28 billion a year. But the real issue isn't the money, he said - it's that "Everyone who lives and works here should pay their fair share." Raising taxes for those who can't vote might be a canny political move, but economically it may backfire. The Treasury reckons some 3,000 registered nondoms - out of a total of 115,000 - will pull up stakes when the new rule kicks in on April 6. Britain...