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...completely different way of life. Sometimes, he said, that “culture shock” took a comical turn. When a Catholic charity group in Syracuse brought Dau to a supermarket, he was puzzled by the green salads on display. “Why do they have this grass here?” he remembered asking. “There are no cows.” Once resettled in Syracuse, Dau worked several low-paying jobs for companies such as McDonald’s and UPS. He was profiled in a 2006 documentary film about the lost boys...
...Grass-roots Democrats, however--the people who will actually vote for Clinton, Edwards or Obama--are not in a missionary mood. In a June 2006 German Marshall Fund survey, only 35% of Democrats, compared with 64% of Republicans, said the U.S. should "help establish democracy in other countries." While that response was colored by Iraq, most Democrats opposed even nonmilitary efforts such as supporting dissidents and imposing political sanctions. Blairites are big fans of foreign aid. But according to a 2005 Security and Peace Institute study, only 38% of Democrats said the U.S. can afford it. (The Republican number...
...Sure, the lack of goalposts on either end of the field left the grass behind the team logos in the football endzones ominously barren, but it wasn’t until just over midway through the first quarter of the Harvard men’s lacrosse team’s 9-6 win over Brown that the new locale’s capabilities really “shined...
...eight years in the White House and two Senate campaigns' worth of connections. He has the stuff dreams are made of--and 100,000 donors, twice as many as Clinton. Whereas Romney leveraged the faithful networks of Mormons and Wall Street, Obama tapped both Net roots and grass roots, collecting nearly $7 million online. The Democrats together outraised the G.O.P. by 50%. In what is likely to be the first $2 billion campaign, money may not be the most important thing--but it's more important than ever...
...scene from a picturesque European village in 1999. It's a place he finds filled with endings, loss and decay. "The storks had left by now. Their nests lay silent and empty atop the chimneys. The summer was in afterglow, the mayor sweated as he cut back the municipal grass." If that doesn't evoke expiration, consider that the mayor is cutting the grass with a scythe...