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There’s an apology I have to make here. As the beat writer for the Harvard sailing team, I’ve been responsible for covering the squad since March. Being honest, before I picked up the beat, the only thing I knew about sailing was that it took place on the water, and that there seemed to be some sort of racing involved...
...minutes before polls opened at 6:30 a.m., it was still pitch dark along Cleveland's streets and difficult to see the campaign signs or even the "Vote Here" ones. But those who always vote at St. Mary's Romanian Orthodox Church on Cleveland's far west side knew exactly where to go. By 6:20 a.m. the parking lot was filling up quickly and an almost all-white crowd of 30-some voters had formed. All across Cleveland, polls opened on time and short lines formed immediately...
There really isn't a prevailing worldview. We knew from the beginning that we couldn't be just like everybody else, or we'd fail. If we were a carbon copy of CNN or somebody else, why would anybody bother to watch us? We needed a valid but nonetheless distinct product. So I set out to look for stories that could be done in a different way and valid stories that others weren't doing...
...Obama never really knew his biological father, who died in a car crash in Kenya in 1982, and his grandfather died in 1992, three years before his mother. But Obama's grandmother was always there. She took care of Obama when he was 10 and returned to Hawaii to attend school while his mother spent a few years continuing her anthropological research in Indonesia. At the time, his grandparents helped Obama get a scholarship to Punahou, an élite prep school on the island. All three of them lived in a small, two-bedroom apartment on Beretania Street in Honolulu...
...friends Dole brought on board to celebrate the last 96 hours was Sen. John McCain, who still remembers those days as a highlight of his political life. "He was unleashed," McCain fondly recalled of Dole, during an interview in the spring of 2007. "He knew he was going to lose...