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...intent on following Obama's successful playbook that he is in essence trying to replicate the former senator's grass-roots campaign. In the final 72-hour sprint to the finish line, the McAuliffe campaign has been working to make more than 1 million calls and knock on more than 85,000 doors. At the same time, in just six months McAuliffe has built the closest thing to a Democratic machine that Virginia has ever seen, benefiting from union endorsements and the help of President Bill Clinton, who has made several swings through Virginia on McAuliffe's behalf. (Read about...
...does not revolve, in one way or another, around Roe v. Wade. The appeals-court judge Sonia Sotomayor has ruled on just three cases that dealt, indirectly, with abortion. She has written a lot about racial preferences, though. That is one reason the country is set to have a knock-down, drag-out fight over affirmative action instead...
...comedian Stephen Colbert.CHILD’S PLAYGreene’s enthusiasm for mathematics began early. The physicist said that by the seventh grade, he had “maxed out” on the coursework his school had to offer. Greene’s teacher sent him knocking on doors at Columbia in search of a professor willing to teach him.“[The note] basically said, ‘Help this kid learn some stuff, he’s beyond what we can do,’” Greene recalled. He found a teacher...
...analogies do important work - they make us understand - but they also have knock-on effects. If stocks "skyrocket," you probably want to get onboard. After all, a rocket goes from the ground up into the heavens. Sounds pretty good. Never mind that a more appropriate metaphor might be a roller-coaster...
...muster. "You've got to make choices that make sense for you," she says, "because there's always going to be somebody who'll think you should do something differently." When prodded, she admits with a wry smile that there are moments when she misses her old, anonymous knock-around days. "It's a lot easier to live your life," she says, "when everything you do doesn't have a consequence...