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McCain's team has the running mates appear together far more often than is the norm, forfeiting the mathematical advantage of covering two states at a time in order to keep them side by side, resulting in seemingly quadruple the effect, excitement and resonance...
From traveling to South America to learn Portuguese to interning on Wall Street, the Harvard community is hardly lacking when it comes to interesting summers.But for senior Emily Cross and freshman Noam Mills of the Harvard fencing team, this summer went far beyond the norm for even the overly ambitious Harvard students. This summer meant the fulfillment of a lifelong dream at the Olympics in Beijing.“Ever since I was a child, my biggest dream was to go and succeed there,” Mills said. “So I fulfilled the first part...
Sticking mostly to scholarly concerns, Hammonds did touch upon current affairs, including the rise of mixed-race presidential candidate Barack Obama. She discussed the norm of using phenotypic, rather than genotypic, racial identification. Obama is just as much Caucasian as he is African American, she emphasized, though he is identified as the latter because of his appearance...
...Senate seat in the state, where Barack Obama is ahead of John McCain. But getting elected means making people believe you can relate to them, and that's why Franken - writer, actor, comedian, talk-show host and longtime denizen of Saturday Night Live - is running behind Republican Senator Norm Coleman...
...victims of the kidnapping surge see little hope of the government turning things around anytime soon. At the Martí funeral last Sunday, expressions of anger, fear and impotence were the norm. Alfredo Harp, who had been kidnapped by a leftist guerrilla group in the early '90s before being freed after the payment of a ransom said by family sources to be more than $50 million, stood next to the bereaved father, as did a number of other kidnapping victims from the business community. The talk in this community is increasingly focused on taking matters into their hands...