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...little-known, but now very famous, state senator named Barack Obama electrified the crowd. Half black Nigerian, half white Kansan, from Chicago by way of New York and Hawaii, Obama was the convention’s keynote speaker—a distinction that meant middling reviews and continued obscurity for most of the politicians given the job. But with breathtaking confidence, breezy style and an earnest, resonant voice, the next U.S. senator from Illinois delivered the most powerful tribute to a political campaign in 20 years. Despite years battling the longest odds to make progress for inner city kids...
...skeptics among you took an especially dim if not downright hostile view of our reporting on Jerusalem at the time of Jesus. "A healthy percentage of your readers probably couldn't care less what Jesus saw or did," griped a Kansan. "Report on Jerusalem today, and leave the theology to someone else." "How nice to have news of the upcoming holiday!" a Wisconsin reader said sarcastically. "If Jesus is on the cover, and it's snowing outside, it must be Christmas. If it's raining, it must be Easter." And a man from Ohio wrote, "Jesus may sell magazines...
...example, Kenyan experts can run the full distance of the race, while Italian amateurs need race only 20 miles and a calorically-enhanced Kansan need only run 10 miles. This should ensure that winnings are equitably distributed among the race runners...
...early 1995, Will set about capturing the right-wing activists in Iowa and New Hampshire, all of whom were naturally suspicious of the pragmatic Kansan. Will believed the race would be about back-porch issues--not tax cuts or foreign policy but the everyday hopes and fears that Americans had for themselves and their children. If Dole could address those issues, he would not only outflank Gramm; he might even outflank Clinton...
...optimistic Democrats are predicting that Bill Clinton will not win more than 52%. But a real landslide ought to be well above that. Since 1824, when reliable popular-voting results became available, only four Presidents have made it into the 60% club. (One of them--F.D.R.--ran against a Kansan...