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...going to be, an increasingly difficult challenge. Alumni have voiced much concern about funding financial aid: their wish to establish a “rainy day fund” for scholarship holders covering them in case of crisis, is being taken seriously. Unfortunately, no one knows how long the rain will last...
...white grandmother who had helped raise him had died in her sleep, and would not live to see whether her grandson would become the nation's first African-American president. Madelyn Dunham "was one of those quiet heroes that we have all across America," Obama told supporters on a rain-sodden field at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte. "They aren't seeking the limelight. All they're trying to do is do the right thing." As Obama spoke, tears rolled down his right cheek; at that display of public anguish by a candidate who almost always...
...city's most overcrowded precinct - in the heart of the bustling Chinatown - the lunchtime line snaked far around the corner of the block at the Chinese Christian Church at 10th and Spring streets. Easily a hundred people waited in line as a cold, and previously unpredicted, rain began to fall. The precinct was supposed to have only around 1,200 voters on the rolls but wound up this year with more than 4,000. Christy Kam, 26, a dance instructor, waited in line for more than an hour to cast her first-ever vote, only to discover that...
...election, over 100 people gathered on a busy street corner in Sacramento to scream opposing views at each other in a protest that spilled over from the weekend. And in Modesto, about a dozen men, women and children gathered after dark in the pouring rain to cheerfully wave yellow "Yes on 8" banners at cars entering the freeway. - By Kristin Kloberdanz / Modesto...
...campaign known for record-breaking crowds. At most events there is a carefully cultivated atmosphere of history-in-the making, inspiring tens of thousands of people to line up for hours, many taking the day off work or pulling their children out of school for the event. In pouring rain and baking tarmacs they groove to Jackie Wilson's "Your Love Is Lifting Me Higher" and "I'll Take You There," by Mavis Staples in between speeches by local politicians...