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Several university newspapers have reported three-fold to four-fold price increases—for instance, from roughly $8 to roughly $40 at Kansas State University, according to the University Daily Kansan. The Columbia Daily Spectator wrote that many students were forgoing their purchases of birth control pills rather than pay the inflated prices...
...sumé and drop-dead charisma, his campaign is more candidate-driven than most. It's all about the spectacular keynote speech he gave to the Democratic National Convention in 2004. It's all about the fact that he's--pace Joe Biden--a young, attractive, eloquent and intelligent Kenyan Kansan. (Baseball cap spotted in Iowa later that day: OBAMA '08--ARTICULATE AND CLEAN...
Thus were the bristly experts in the world of literary scholarship arguing last week the merits of a young Kansan's claim that he had discovered in Oxford a long-buried poem by William Shakespeare. If authentic, the work would be the first notable addition to the canon in more than three centuries. Gary Lynn Taylor, 32, joint general editor of the Oxford University Press's forthcoming New Complete Shakespeare, reported that he first glimpsed the find while checking through the Bodleian Library's listing of first lines in the catalog of its vast manuscript collection. He came across...
Neither candidate has played up his Harvard background. Obama’s convention speech followed an American dream narrative: the son of a Kansan mother and a Kenyan father with a Harvard Ph.D, he referred to himself simply as “a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has a place for him, too,” and didn’t mention his Ivy League background...
...even when it is camouflaged with a smile, as it was by John Edwards last Wednesday night and, less felicitously, by Al Gore in the 2000 campaign. The idea of an expansive, inclusive United States of America--a vision presented elegantly on Tuesday night by Barack Obama, the Kenyan-Kansan Senate hopeful from Illinois--has always been the straightest path to the country's heart, as Bill Clinton proved in 1992. These days, the choice has little to do with policy. Edwards and Obama, Clinton and Gore differ on few issues. But there is no more basic strategic or spiritual...