Word: mate
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...their meal ticket." Twelve years after his family left New Zealand for Sydney's west, both Willie Isa's parents work in factories to support their four children. "I want to ease their workload," says Isa, who aims to secure an NRL contract within two years. Says team-mate Penese: "Family comes first for me. Dad's been a taxi driver since we got here [16 years ago]. I just want to get Dad off the road...
When Barack Obama chose Joe Biden as his running mate, he surely had Scranton, Pennsylvania, on his mind. Biden, Delaware's senior Senator, was born in this former coal-mining town two hours north of Philadelphia - a point made countless times during his anointment as the Democratic Party's Vice Presidential candidate. To win the crucial swing state, Obama needs help in towns like Scranton, where Hillary Clinton won 74% of the vote in the Democratic primary and where many are still offended by Obama's remarks about "bitter" small town Pennsylvania voters...
...many events do you think I should be working?" Obama says with a laugh when I ask him about the lackadaisical pace. Comparatively, I say, Al Gore in 2000 and John Kerry in 2004 kept much brisker schedules; Kerry, who had named his running mate, John Edwards, weeks before the convention, spent the last week of the primaries hustling through a bus tour from Norfolk, Va., to Philadelphia and on to New York City, while Gore barnstormed across battleground states, doing a "handoff" in Michigan to the Clintons, who preceded him to the convention...
...Indeed, with the weekend eaten up by the rollout of his running mate, Delaware Senator Joe Biden, Obama has been up late the past few nights working on his convention speech in a quiet room at the Park Hyatt Hotel in Chicago, returning to his home city every night through last weekend. Always a night owl, the Illinois Senator writes out every idea by hand, revising his thoughts as he logs the pages into a laptop. He's already gone well past midnight twice...
...more concise and comprehensive way than any other McCain surrogate. In interview after interview, Romney was relentlessly negative, without ever raising his voice or coming across as strident. He hammered Barack Obama as an inexperienced "celebrity" and repeatedly cited the less fortuitous foreign policy positions of his running mate, Joe Biden...