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...Harvard since the time of Frost, Ashbery, and others.“Those generations of poets, coming from whatever class backgrounds they came from, would often go immediately to a place like Harvard,” says Kevin Holden ’05, an MFA candidate at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in the University of Iowa. “So it’s not so much necessarily Harvard as it was them. You couldn’t write poetry as an undergrad for credit as far as I know, until fairly recently.”Many...
...speech there, as he repeated his calls for his party to show "courage" in opposing the war. Labor leaders are very enthusiastic about his emphasis on reducing poverty and increasing the minimum wage. And he has strong poll numbers, coming either first or second in most surveys in Iowa...
...touched by all the people who came up-this was before I had done anything; this was Friday night around 6 o'clock -and I was just so touched by all the people who came up to talk to me and to welcome me to Iowa and tell me how happy they were. And some even to tell me that they were supporting me. And you know, the young women who came wanting autographs or wanting to tell me they were teachers or they were students or they were nurses. It was really touching to me that there...
...said in Iowa, this is George Bush's war, and he's the one who needs to extricate us from it. He has really engendered so much anger and outrage in the electorate, and I understand people's deep desire to have it end. There this idea that, somehow, we should just end it, and we are trying in the Congress to come up with means to influence this President. But the reality is, we have very few tools that we can use to to force him to change, because he always can veto anything we pass and this President...
...other thing I understand is that voters in Iowa take their responsibility to shop very seriously, and I respect that. And I intend to do this, as I kept saying over and over again, the Iowa way. I will go back. I will answer people's questions. I will make them feel more comfortable and open to me. And hopefully, get a positive response. You know, I know I have to earn every vote. None of that worries...