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...show. "It is still amazing to me how much press this has generated for us," says Tracy Barone, executive director of the Lackawanna County Convention and Visitors Bureau. "If it's been mentioned on The Office, people want to come and see it." It doesn't seem to matter to Barone or anyone else in Scranton that the town's image in the show is comically dismal. "We couldn't be happier they picked Scranton and not Utica," she says...
...Indeed, both advocates and opponents of equitable funding tend to agree that accountability must go hand in hand with increased funding. "It's just common sense," says Michael Rebell, director of the National Access Network, a Columbia University think-tank that tracks parity in education funding. "Money will only matter if it is used well...
...Rove's carefully calibrated public second act. It's also about reputation. After a 15-year run as George W. Bush's resident campaign genius, Rove left the White House diminished by accusations he played a role in politicized hiring at the Justice Department. (An internal report on the matter is expected soon.) He was wounded, too, by the revelation that - despite numerous, vigorous denials by the Administration - he indeed leaked the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame. And the 2006 election, whose outcome he got wildly wrong, was seen as a repudiation of both the President and his most...
...Clinton cleared up all doubts in a matter of seconds: "I am here as a proud mother," she declared, "a proud Democrat, a proud Senator from New York, a proud American - and a proud supporter of Barack Obama." At that the crowd of some 15,000 people, which had greeted Clinton with a solid four-minute wall of noise, erupted again, waving all those white "Hillary" signs in an enormous cloud...
...What's more, Plouffe added, the McCain campaign has yet to show any signs that it can match the organizational strength of the Obama campaign - or, for that matter, the muscle that the George Bush campaign put into driving up its voter turnout in 2004. Where the Obama campaign is contacting as many as 10,000 people a night in some states, Plouffe said, "one thing we never run into out there is a John McCain field organization...