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...Governor of swing state Minnesota and a longtime ally with proven campaign skills...
...solution to this problem: paid work, coupled with a drug-free environment and comprehensive support services. Every day in New York City, our Ready, Willing & Able program works with hundreds of former drug offenders, successfully helping them become law-abiding, self-sufficient members of society. It's a proven formula, in use right now, and it can put an end to the war on drugs once and for all. George McDonald and Harriet Karr-McDonald, Co-Founders, the Doe Fund, New York City...
...stunning effort: both to expose the seamy elements of racism to public view and to redefine the issue for the future as the challenge of building opportunity. The bigger challenge is whether the message will resonate with white working class Pennsylvanians, especially white men who have proven one of the toughest political nuts for the Obama campaign to crack. That's a much bigger problem, and it will take time to sort out how this speech plays out against centuries of racial tensions that have been part of Pennsylvania politics. After all, there's one town - York - that surrendered...
...sports pages do not usually pay the conference too much heed—even a “homer,” after all, would have a hard time scaring up affection for perennial cellar-dweller Columbia. But just as the extracurricular activities of a certain state official have proven too scintillating for the front pages to ignore, the Times believes it has found a similarly sordid narrative to plant on the back pages. Thus came the paper’s report last Tuesday that the former jewel of Harvard’s “highly regarded recruiting class...
Microsoft’s newest operating system, Windows Vista, has proven to be a tough sell. Faced with lackluster sales and a decidedly chilly reception from the press, garnering first place in PCWorld magazine’s “15 Biggest Tech Disappointments of 2007,” the Redmond-based software giant has responded by deciding to stop offering Vista’s popular predecessor, Windows Experience (XP), for sale in retail and other channels. This move is not only a poorly concealed ploy to boost flagging Vista sales, but is also a policy that will hurt Microsoft...