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...published earlier this year, examines how candidates try to attract voters who agree with one candidate on some issues, and the other candidate on others. Given last night’s results, Obama’s use of technology in his advertising campaign seems to have proven more effective. “Obama had an advantage in that he was able to use new technology in a creative way,” Hillygus said after her talk, which was part of the weekly Berkman Luncheon Series. Obama used his fundraising advantage over Republican candidate John McCain to buy advertisements...
Kawasaki likes his rookie entrepreneurs to be young, hungry and determined and sleepless. "Success takes crazy passionate people who believe they can change the world," he says. "Success doesn't take 'professional' and 'proven' people." His ultimate role models are megasuccessful outfits such as Apple, Microsoft, eBay, Google, HP and YouTube. The author delivers inspirational tough love to his minions: "My theory is that when you're young, you should work 80 hours a week to create a product or service that changes the world...
...conservative dreams. Like many of his supporters, I had always believed that McCain’s biggest political stumbling block was winning a party nomination. I figured that a general election victory would be a breeze, because he appealed to so many moderates. Obviously, I have been proven wrong by this election cycle. But it is not only that McCain was confronted with a Democratic candidate who appealed to moderates better—it is that McCain has changed as a politician...
...enthusiasm for teaching—all of which are more important considerations in the hiring of professors and the development of young minds. Secondly, the idea that liberal—or untraditional—scholarship is undesirable is one fundamentally opposed to the ideal of academia, which has proven most influential when it has pressed conventional knowledge to its limits and challenged traditional ways of thinking. It is perhaps true is that the trend of academic scholarship today lends itself to progressive thinking, as postmodernist and poststructuralist analytical frameworks inherently lend themselves to a liberal view of the world. Taking...
...consecutive presidential elections couldn’t be counted on for a third. Many may have believed that Barack Obama was too smart, too black, or even too “Muslim” to be accepted by voters from New Hampshire to Nevada, but the American voters have proven them wrong. As Barack Obama frequently says, his is a uniquely American story. That this self-described “skinny kid with a funny name” can rise to the highest office in the nation is a testament to the power of the American Dream. That said, President...