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Beyond all that, however, a really great primary campaign - and 2008 is shaping up as one for the ages - is a remarkable exercise in popular democracy. Think of some of the stories that have already been told this year: the Evangelical community, tired of being courted and then ignored by smoother Republican candidates, turning out in Iowa to support Mike Huckabee, a man who is authentically of their stock, even if the party establishment thought him a lightweight; the thousands of college students who have seen in Barack Obama someone who speaks to their, and not their parents', concerns...
...what can be done--for the people of Kenya and their 788 million fellow sub-Saharan Africans? For the West, part of the answer lies in holding African governments accountable for the graft and misrule that sow popular disgruntlement. The West largely contents itself with the appearance of democracy in Africa, not the reality, and gives billions of dollars in aid to corrupt governments. "The World Bank runs around establishing anti-corruption commissions," says Joel Barkan, a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington who was in Kenya for the vote. "They have been singularly...
...many of whom think that keitai shosetsu should stay on cell-phone screens. But it is undeniably shaking up a publishing industry whose sales have been declining for a decade. A professional author of fiction is lucky to sell more than a few thousand copies of a title. A popular cell-phone novelist sells several hundred thousand, and recruitment for new talent is intense. "Find the novelist in you!" online ads cry. "Make your debut...
...that any of this negative publicity has had any significant impact on our recruiting,” he says. “We’ve had a very successful recruiting year, and our events at Harvard were very well attended.”Kreisberg points out that other popular employers, such as Google and Yahoo!, have similarly not been affected by alleged unethical business practices.“Yahoo! has just apologized for giving the Chinese police the names of dissident bloggers, and Google and Microsoft have been accused of the same collusion, but students still favor those companies...
...packed. It was overflowing. I also think that coincided with people [starting] to pay close attention to the candidates. We were immersed in it. People don't focus until they think the event is coming up. And also [McCain's Iraq war stance] wasn't very popular at that time, as you also know...