Word: hoping
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...Thursday also brought news of Barack Obama's 2008 book earnings - with the same publisher, Crown. The President picked up $2.5 million in royalties last year for his memoir Dreams from My Father (139 weeks and counting on the New York Times paperback nonfiction list) and The Audacity of Hope (64 weeks on the same list). Add that to Obama's 2007 haul of $4 million for the same two books. Obama already has a contract to write a third nonfiction book for Crown when he leaves office. Crown also announced Thursday that Dreams from My Father would be adapted...
...Harvard baseball team looks to rebound from a four-game sweep last weekend at the University of Alabama-Birmingham with yet another southern tour—this time through Louisiana. The Crimson (1-7) will hope to solidify its pitching rotation and get the bats moving more consistently over the next week before opening Ivy League play the following weekend.“We’re hoping to be a little more consistent and play some complete games,” senior Tom Stack-Babich said. “We’ve played well in parts of each...
...learned in the shadow of an empty steel plant more than two decades ago, while you can't necessarily bend history to your will, you can do your part to see that, in the words of Dr. King, it "bends toward justice." So I hope that you will stand up and do what you can to serve your community, shape our history and enrich both your own life and the lives of others across this country...
...whose board is chaired by Medvedev, says talk of a split is nonsense. "My understanding is that that is an absolutely irrelevant point of view," he says. The reserve "will operate like a team" and have a "mixture of people, liberal and conservative. My only thought is that I hope we can help Russia during the crisis...
...leader of a tribe speaks, if he says he has reconciled with another or with the government, his word is law, and all members of that tribe fall in line. That's why al-Maliki is reaching out to them in a bid to foster national reconciliation. The hope is that when the stranger leaves, Iraq's brothers and cousins will resolve their family feuds the old-fashioned way, through dialogue and deference. The potential is there, but so many questions remain to be answered...