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...Richardson is not only regarded by her teammates and coaches as one of the best runners in the program, but also as one of the most amiable characters they’ve ever met...
...Overall, it will be a very multifaceted broadcast with the newest feature being the special guests, who will be commenting throughout the broadcast,” Heffner said, adding that he met many of the guests through his show on the student radio station at Phillips Academy, where he went to high school...
...other black voters here found the theme of racial milestones too simplistic. At the church, where a long line wrapped around the large building, a white reporter was met with exasperated murmurs when she asked how it felt finally to have an African-American on the ballot. "He's bi-racial. I don't know why you all keep saying that. He's for all the people, and all the eyes of the world are on us today," said Sharon Weathers, 40, an unemployed mental health worker...
...away; selling them should speed carbon reductions and boost alternative-energy development but will cost more.) Those proposals still need to be voted on by the full European Parliament and individual governments. But French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who currently holds the rotating E.U. presidency, insists the goals will be met. "Climate change is so important that we cannot use the financial and economic crisis as a pretext for dropping it," he says. In Britain, where Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been a leader on climate change, Parliament passed an ambitious law on Oct. 28 that commits the country to cutting...
...Obama's birth does not appear to have been planned. His mother and father met at the University of Hawaii and got married when she was already pregnant. To help provide for the new baby, Obama's grandmother, who did not have a college degree, got a job as a secretary at a bank. For more than two decades, she got up at 5 a.m., put on a suit and took the bus to work, arriving first at the office. Eventually - and much more slowly than her male counterparts - she advanced and was promoted to vice president. She earned more...