Word: jeaned
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...over the votes of black women. But where African-Americans comprised a small segment of the vote, as they did in California and Massachusetts, this didn't help him much. He also had the vigorous support of Missouri's leading Democratic women - Sen. Claire McCaskill and former Sen. Jean Carnahan - who appeared together in radio and television ads for Obama...
...Clay and Cleaver machines pulling the big cities in opposite directions, women and young people may make the difference. Obama has some big guns helping him with the former audience: Sen. Claire McCaskill, the state's ranking Democrat, has joined her popular mom, Betty Anne, and former Sen. Jean Carnahan in pro-Obama TV and radio advertisements...
Increasingly, however, influential French voices see "diversity as an opportunity, not a problem," says Hakim El-Karoui, who along with Rachida Dati - President Nicolas Sarkozy's Justice Minister - founded the 21st Century Club for minority movers and shakers. A former speechwriter for Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, El-Karoui recalls working lunches during Ramadan when he'd cover his plate with his notebook, so Raffarin wouldn't notice he wasn't eating. Occasionally, he'd face the prejudice of exceptionalism: colleagues would refer to him as "a good Muslim," adding that "not all of them are like...
...insisted, mindful that she couldn't say it was religious. She began wearing a surgery cap, until the hospital passed a rule - "designed for me," claims Kaddouri - banning head coverings of any kind. Suspended for five weeks for breaking the rule, she took the hospital to court for discrimination. Jean-Pierre Burnier, the hospital's chief administrator, defends the decision to suspend her. "[Under laïcité], public services like hospitals have a responsibility to respect [religious] neutrality," he says. "This wasn't just a boss's whim." Two years on, the tribunal's decision is pending, and Kaddouri...
Obama was not the only one backstage who appeared to be struck by the history of the moment. Before Kennedy's sister Jean Smith left the event, she handed the Illinois Senator a slip of paper and asked for one small favor. Obama obliged-and gave her an autograph...