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...Obama learned the enduring value of a well-intentioned gesture with another kind of summit. He felt that he needed to retreat from the inflammatory words that he uttered in judgment of the Cambridge police department after Henry Louis Gates, Jr. was arrested there, sparking a national debate about race in America. Though the discourse about the arrest, its aftermath, and the realities of race problems in the country spread far and wide, Obama thought that a simple gesture might soothe the ire of the affair—an invitation to relax over a beer...
...California Institution for Men - the state's worst since 2006 - was fueled by racial tensions among black and Hispanic inmates. The violence came as California's prison system is adapting to a 2005 Supreme Court ruling that makes it more difficult for facilities to automatically segregate new prisoners by race, as the state had done for more than 25 years to defuse potential violence. A spokesman for the prison system said integrated prison blocks may have contributed to inflamed racial tensions prior to the riot. (Read "Q&A: How to Fix California's Prisons...
...capture the momentous contest in a polished account refreshingly free of last year's breathless soundbites, pundit insta-reaction or fixation on trifling gaffes (the maelstrom over President Obama's "lipstick on a pig" comment warrants barely a mention). Instead, it provides an evenhanded and comprehensive account of the race, based on interviews with key players and enhanced by the perspective of time and distance. (Read Mark Halperin's Final Campaign Report Cards...
...just how flawed and, in James Carville's term, "joyless" the team was. Balz and Johnson reveal that Clinton grew furious at her (soon-to-be-ousted) campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle after the Iowa caucuses when she seemed disturbingly comfortable with the prospect of her boss conceding the race to Obama. On a conference call the morning after her painful third-place finish in the state, the dispirited candidate's top advisers offered her ... nothing. Not a pep talk, not a plan for the future; silence. "I've enjoyed talking to myself the last 20 minutes," she said...
...early indication that he might be electable nationwide, he said, was his strong Senate approval ratings even in Illinois' rural, white, culturally conservative regions. "If I'm in a big industrial state with 12% African-American population and people seem to not be concerned about my race and much more concerned with my performance, why would [that not hold true] across the country?" (Read "The Screwups of Campaign...