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...monthly playgroups called “Dumplings.” “I believe with all my heart in the work that HCC is doing. They give us a huge gift, and I’m here to give back by supporting them,” said Maria S. Kulsick, an adoptive parent and third-year participant in the Dumplings program. Academy Award-winning filmmaker Thomas Lennon showed an excerpt from his 2006 Oscar winning documentary “The Blood of Yingzhou District” at the dinner. The film, co-produced by Ruby Yang of the Chang...
...point. When he was three years old, he had a poster of the 42 American presidents in his bedroom. Within weeks he had memorized every name, and he was already picturing his face in the blank spot the poster had left for the 43rd president. His mother, A. Maria Ballesteros, said she got used to explaining to friends that she and her husband weren’t forcing Chris to memorize anything. “Otherwise they’d think we were weird parents,” she said. Chris was just an unusual child. Since his toddler years...
...Smalley, a 32-year-old financial trainer at the Cleveland Clinic, took his time, sauntering into St. Mary's in the late afternoon. Today is different. He's here to vote for Barack Obama. "I wanted to get in as early as possible and avoid the rush," Smalley said. Maria Wright, 55, is a grandmother used to voting early on Election Day. She isn't too excited about this year's choices for president. "I don't like either of them," she says and has resorted to picking John McCain. "He's just the lesser of two evils." - By Charu...
...Many politicians, both pro and anti-Kirchner, concur with that assessment. "He is the one definitely calling the shots," says Maria Eugenia Estenssoro of the centrist Civic Coalition Party, which came in second in last year's elections. "It is a big disappointment," says another legislator from Fernández's camp, who requested anonymity. "Kirchner is now in charge again...
...aura of inevitability around Obama. And the Democratic nominee can certainly afford it. But Arizona Democrats insist they truly do have a legitimate shot at winning here. "Obama has taken us up to the 30-yard line. Now it's our job to get the field goal," says Maria Weeg, executive director of the Arizona Democratic Party. Democratic volunteers have been activated by the thousands, many returning from Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico. The party has orchestrated hundreds of thousands of calls and tens of thousands of door knocks during the last four days of the election...