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...most important [issue],” said Jonathan S. Gould ’10, student co-chair of the IOP Survey Group, who helped formulate the poll’s questions and analyze the data. Gould added that the results, which were first presented at a Washington, D.C. press conference last week, have since been sent to the presidential campaigns of Clinton, Obama, and presumptive Republican nominee John McCain. “[The survey is] weighted to probably be the most accurate survey of young people out there,” Gould said. “This is absolutely something...
...Neither the press nor the President had a rebuttal to Colbert, then or now, so he was simply not invited back and officially forgotten. Ever since, the dinner had been a far less newsworthy affair. As is tradition, the President stood to do a short stand-up act, which included the retelling of an old joke about Vice President Dick Cheney watching Bush through a peephole in the Oval Office door while masturbating. Such is the state of Washington humor...
...podium a conductor's baton and turned his back to the audience of reporters and their guests. The curtains parted, revealing the U.S. Marine Band, which Bush then pretended to conduct in a recitation of "Stars and Stripes Forever." Though unstated, the joke was apparently that we in the press corps had been given a brief respite from following rise and fall of the White House conductor's baton. For tonight, at least, Bush would manipulate another institution instead...
Meyers said that early on it looked like the prosecution was in trouble because of its reliance on non-credible and often contradictory witnesses. He blames the relationship that Brown's office has with the police department. In the press conference, Brown admitted that his office does, in fact, work closely with the NYPD, further buttressing Meyers frustration that there is no state special prosecutor. "The civil rights community has been calling for years for this," he said, "but you don't have any leadership on the part of the governors of New York State...
...return could not come too soon for Mary Croom-Fontenot, an activist in New Orleans who works with local churches to help organize the post-Katrina rebuilding. "Twenty minutes out on this lawn in the heat does not suffice," she said, after McCain held a press availability in the Lower Ninth Ward on Thursday. Like some others, she said she thought McCain's visit to the neighborhood, which included two military trucks for carrying photographers to capture McCain as he walked through, was overly focused on the national media, not the actual community. "What we saw was a designated seating...