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...superdelegates but those obscure folks who are elected to represent their districts at the convention. "One of the things is having been on the Obama staff during the primaries doing politics he knows who needs what, who needs to be stroked more, who needs little extra care there," says Jamal Simmons, a strategist who managed regional press for Al Gore in 2000 and met Nugen at that year's convention. "He knows that all delegates are equal but some delegates are more equal than others...
...favorite to win the men's 1,500-m race, though he'll be challenged by two Kenyans running for Qatar and Bahrain under new Arab names. Two other medal favorites going into the Games' final weekend are Bahrain's Ethiopian-born 1,500-m specialist Maryam Yusuf Jamal and Qatar's Kenyan-born marathoner Mubarak Hassan Shami, who will have to beat out former teammates who know him by his birth name, Richard Yatich...
...Clinton, and McCain for that matter, are going to use these comments to cast Obama as an arrogant elitist, they better be prepared to deal with the blowback. As Jamal Simmons, a Democratic consultant and Obama supporter, put it in an email exchange with TIME, "Hillary Clinton calls Barack Obama elitist? Really? Hillary Clinton was a corporate lawyer who sat on the Wal-Mart board before becoming First Lady and is now worth over $100 million. Barack Obama is the child of a single mother raised in part by his grandparents who went to school on a scholarship...
...Jamal Simmons Unaffiliated Democratic strategist
...football season might mean rest and relaxation for the many players of the NFL, but for more than 30 that have come to Cambridge this week, playtime is over. The football players—who include New England Patriots defensive end Richard V. Seymour and Cleveland Browns running back Jamal L. Lewis, according to a press release—are at Harvard as part of the NFL Business Management and Entrepreneurial Program. The collaborative effort between the NFL, the NFL Players Association, and the Business School helps players prepare for professional life after their football days are over. Michael...