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...election-day boost from Havana. To win the nation's largest swing state, it's imperative that McCain hold on to South Florida's Cuban-American votes, which usually swing strongly Republican but which Democrats believe they can divide this year. Those voters may have gotten an added impetus to go for McCain a few hours ago when Fidel Castro, Cuba's ailing ex-President and scourge of the Miami exile community, voiced praise for (but didn't outright endorse) Obama: "Without a doubt," Castro wrote this morning in Cuba's state-controlled media, "Obama is more intelligent, cultured...
...Obviously, Silverman intended her ad to be funny, but her plea is quite serious. Now more than ever, even Jews who support—and will vote for—Obama and the Democrats, have taken extra impetus to do so, not just because of Obama’s Muslim-sounding name. According to a 2008 annual survey by the American Jewish Committee, Obama has 57 percent of the American Jewish vote , the lowest Jewish support for a Democratic candidate since Carter’s feeble 45 percent in 1980 against Republican challenger Ronald Reagan. And by ignoring the fundamental...
...behold, one of the definitions of “hyper” was something like “reality that takes place beyond three dimensions.” I thought that was an interesting and appropriate way of looking at it. THC: What was the impetus behind “The Ghost in Love”? JC: I love 1930s screwball comedies. The writer-director Preston Sturges is one of my heroes and movies like “Sullivan’s Travels” or “Palm Beach Story” should be included on every space...
...children underperform in social categorization,” is one of two new studies on race written by Business School Professor Michael I. Norton along with lead author Evan P. Apfelbaum, a PhD candidate at Tufts, and Samuel R. Sommers, an assistant professor at Tufts. “The impetus for the paper on children was trying to understand the extent that we see race yet ‘don’t,’” Apfelbaum said. “We know that infants as young as six months can discriminate between different races, yet children...
...really important influence in saying, ‘Wow! You could do this professionally.’”Paulus has now come full circle, returning with an aim to give the theater and Harvard what it gave to her in her school days: the impetus to create art. Though Paulus’s experience as a Harvard undergraduate motivated her to pursue theater as a career, the A.R.T. plays a strikingly minimal role in campus life today. Few apart from those students heavily involved in dramatic arts can say that Harvard and the A.R.T., a university affiliate, have...