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...building in Van Nuys. Organizers gathered round a fresh-faced teenager, shouting "Let's hear it for Jeff who made 200 calls!" and handing the boy a poster featuring the presidential contender. Nicole Roberts, a 26-year-old African-American actress from Sherman Oaks, stood waiting for a friend to deliver a cell phone, as hers had run out of juice. "This election to me is my civil rights moment," said Roberts, a "Team Barack" necklace gleaming above her Obama T shirt. "My grandmother was active in the civil rights movement and ridding injustice. She passed away last year...
...funeral took place Monday, Austin radio airwaves reverberated with ads criticizing one Baron-backed Democratic statehouse candidate for taking money, as the ad put it, from a trial lawyer who had paid off Edwards' mistress. At the funeral, Iowa Governor Chet Culver, a Democrat and friend of the Iowa-born Baron, said the late attorney loved spending hours on the telephone raising money for the Democrats. Culver also told Edwards that Baron was the ex-presidential candidate's "biggest fan." Edwards did not speak at the funeral. - By Hilary Hylton / Austin...
...very, very sad, because we all hoped that she would be able to sustain her strength through Election Day itself," said Hawaii Democratic Representative Neil Abercrombie, a family friend. "She passed away confident that he would succeed ... His strength, his calm demeanor that characterized him in these last weeks and last days - this quiet strength that come across so clearly - that comes from his grandmother; there's no question about that. It's her great legacy...
...friend giving me a ride swapped just a couple of grim words with his wife on his cell phone, then turned to me. "They fired her," he said sadly. "There go our plans." The wife, who had enjoyed a cushy bank job, then joined the tens of thousands of Russia's new middle class who have found themselves newly unemployed...
...Later, I found another friend pacing his office atop one of the newly built skyscrapers of "Moscow City," the real estate symbol of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's ambitions of turning the Russian capital into a new world financial center. Several major companies had already moved out of these costly quarters to way beyond the city's municipal boundaries, where they still can afford the rent. My friend's company will soon follow. The Vneshtorgbank (VTB), a major state-run bank, has just canceled its long-planned relocation to the Federation Tower, the tallest of the Moscow City towers. Soon...