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...Uncle Sam was, believe it or not, a real person. During the war of 1812, American troops near the Canadian border received barrels of pork and beef from a Troy, New York meatpacker named Samuel Wilson. Wilson stamped "U.S." on the barrels - because they were going to the U.S. military - and the soldiers joked about gifts sent from "Uncle...
...showed Obama in double digit leads and that the state hasn't voted for a Republican president since Richard Nixon in 1972. Golnik argued that a Hillary Clinton rally indicated Democrats were worried about their chances of taking the state. Clinton made two stops in Duluth, a northern city near the Iron Range where Republicans hope McCain can steal union votes from Democrats...
...some level, the Obama campaign sympathizes. They are promulgating a video urging supporters not to be complacent. The clip shows a cyclist in first place near the finish line. He raises his hands to celebrate as he enters the home stretch, loses his balance, and falls off his bike. Another cyclist cruises past him. In case you didn’t get the point, the campaign even places a photoshopped McCain head on the guy who ends up winning...
...gets in front of the camera, it probably means that something has gone very, very wrong. Like a Super Bowl referee, she's perfectly anonymous if she does her job right, a name in the news only if she blows the call. "We have a quite lovely studio, right near the anchor's desk," Frankovic says of her crew's setup. "There's even a camera in the room. But my goal for election night: not to be on camera...
...nearly empty restaurant - which until quite recently would have been tightly packed at lunch by officials, business executives, entertainers and journalists - a key Moscow banker tells me quietly, "They admit privately at the top that the crisis has moved into economics. Their most likely answer is tightening the screws, as they're running out of other means." In the near future, he envisages Russia's becoming a country whose dwindling population is mired in deepening poverty, an increasingly authoritarian state, run by a handful of immensely rich people, their despotism mediated only by their wish to be accepted...