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...even vote for you: the government owes its fourth election win in part to candidates like Ferguson, a 30-year-old former campaigner against gay adoption who snatched Labor's key seat of Bass, in northern Tasmania; Louise Markus, a pentecostalist social worker who captured Greenway, on Sydney's northwestern fringe; and Family First, a three-year-old party of Christians whose second preferences boosted the Coalition vote in several marginal seats. David Marr, author of the anticlerical squib The High Price of Heaven, likely had tongue in cheek when he noted recently that "God is working for the Liberal...
...have been to Clyde. My father grew up in that corner of northwestern Ohio, and every summer of my childhood we drove west, my brother and I staging violent turf wars in the back seat, until we reached country where the flat loamy soil was carpeted in soybeans and corn. Although I am blue-state born and bred, Ohio felt like home, and our trips like homecomings. I snapped beans from my grandparents’ garden into a bowl in my lap so we could eat them for dinner. My grandfather took my brother and me for rides...
Dawson appeared to be too good to be true to Murphy. After red-shirting his freshman year at Northwestern, he decided he wanted more from his college experience. Football—which he had always considered just a part of his identity—had become his life. In the winter of 2003, knowing he wanted to make a switch, he surveyed his options and settled on Harvard. All he had to do was convince his future coach that he really wanted to play...
...Without sounding overconfident or cocky, yes, I expected this kind of success,” Dawson says. “I did expect to have athletic and individual successes here. My experiences at Northwestern really led me to believe that given hard work I could have successes there or here or anywhere...
...female senior faculty members wrote another infamous letter, this time to President Rudenstine, insisting that he reconsider the denial on the grounds that Honig may have been at a disadvantage because of her gender. No action was taken, and in the summer of 1997, Honig accepted a position at Northwestern University, where she now holds a tenured political science professorship...