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When brother Obama became President Obama, his family was asleep. Uncle Elly was snoring. Half-brother Malki was tucked in his hut and even Uncle Tom had run out of moonshine. This was Kogelo village in western Kenya this morning, a very, very quiet corner of Africa...
...close to 100% Republican sported a rare mix, perhaps 60-40, of McCain and Obama supporters. Even so, Basurto says he's still not telling anyone in his neighborhood whom he voted for until he sees the results tonight. "Mejor para ahora quedarme quieto," he says - better to stay quiet for now. - By Tim Padgett / Miami
...that my side, 'the good guys', would rip off his sign," Sadun told TIME in an email. "So I decided to replace it, partly as penance and partly to show him, and the neighborhood, that we really are the good guys." Sadun headed to the downtown GOP office, a quiet, low key operation, and asked for a sign for his neighbor. "I want to put in a good word for the workers at the GOP office, who were extremely friendly, even after I explained that I was a Democratic precinct chair. They understand that Democrats and Republicans can be friendly...
...hoped that she would be able to sustain her strength through Election Day itself," said Hawaii Democratic Representative Neil Abercrombie, a family friend. "She passed away confident that he would succeed ... His strength, his calm demeanor that characterized him in these last weeks and last days - this quiet strength that come across so clearly - that comes from his grandmother; there's no question about that. It's her great legacy...
...leader who refused to back down to Hitler or endorse a policy of appeasement—not to mention the man for whom the Churchill Martini (six parts gin, hold the vermouth) was named.From the effortless grace of Audrey Hepburn to the manly vulnerability of Ernest Hemingway to the quiet power of cellist Pablo Casals—bent over his instrument mid-stroke, back to the camera—Karsh teases something elementary out of his subjects, something endlessly representative of their characters and lives, searching for the vulnerable, the revealing, the truth. Unfortunately, his work in landscapes or scenes...