Word: forte
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...debate Thursday night inside Hillary Clinton's shell-shocked campaign was what to do now - specifically: how negative to go on Barack Obama. Her 10-minute speech from the stage in the Hotel Fort Des Moines was all magnanimity and grace. Congratulating Obama and former North Carolina Senator John Edwards, who finished ahead of her, Clinton said, "Together we have presented a case for change and made it absolutely clear that America needs a new beginning...
...hundreds of millions of dollars last year in one year. I see Exxon Mobil making billions and billions of dollars in profit, record profits. The top 1% of Americans are taking twice as much of America's income as they did 20-25 years ago," Edwards told supporters in Fort Madison today. "The biggest corporations have an iron-fisted hold on your democracy...
This is when running for President gets really hard. A bleak, windy Sunday morning in Fort Dodge, Iowa. The local roads are ice. As John Edwards enters the community-college cafeteria, his campaign workers are picking up rows of chairs--to make sure the media don't shoot the empty seats. Edwards trudges through his stump speech--the least engaged I've ever seen him--and specifically asks the sparse gathering for questions about the issues he considers important: health care, global warming, poverty, the economy. There are none such. The questions are odd, off point. A Native American accuses...
...Harvard career has been a very ethnocentric one,” says April Youpee-Roll ’08 with a big smile. Youpee-Roll, the former president and current alumni coordinator of Native Americans at Harvard College (NAHC), is an enrolled member of the Fort Peck Sioux tribe, the center of her ethnocentric life. “She has a strong sense of self,” says Mark D. Doolin ’08. “Her Native American identity is at the forefront of how she approaches her academics, her job, her activities—there...
...Jenkins is comforted by one fact. "You do have an ultimate auditor against abuse or error, which is a judge and jury. It is up to them to look into the eyes of the informant and the defendants and decide who is telling the truth." Early next year, the Fort Dix defendants will have their chance. It will be as much a trial of their intent as it is of the government's new model - and of the informant Omar, who is expected to testify in depth...