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...candidates are using black radio in a significant way - they used to make their black radio rounds during the week leading up to the November election and that was it," says Joyner, a 36-year radio veteran. "The only time that ever came close was when Jesse [Jackson] ran in 1984. This election is forcing the candidates to reach out to the black community and talk about issues that matter to us. We hope that this continues with future elections." (See pictures of Barack Obama's family tree...
...like Bill Clinton circa 1993, when he entered the White House not long after the fall of the Soviet Union and with Lake as his top foreign policy adviser. Hillary Clinton's political emphasis is reminiscent of her husband's poll-driven final years, when Holbrooke, Albright and Berger ran diplomacy. "The real foreign policy choice," says a former Clinton State Department official, "may be between Clinton Term One and Clinton Term...
McCain, who represents that state, falls into this camp. The unpopularity of his more moderate immigration stance among conservatives was one reason his campaign nearly died last year. But McCain's position also aided his revival. In Florida, Mitt Romney ran to his right on the issue. White Republicans split their votes, but Hispanic Republicans went 5 to 1 for McCain, who thus captured the state and subsequently the nomination...
...given Ma a deep interest in global inter-connections, he said. Ma’s work with the Silk Road Project has helped him explore the global nature of music and culture in general. This project, which seeks to unite musicians from across the medieval Silk Road that ran from Asia through the Middle East to Europe, has been important to Ma’s work over the last five years. “We may have common languages and economic systems,” he said, “but do we have any insight into how someone else...
...sharp contrast to NATO's Riga summit in 2006. "The tone of the discussion is a lot lighter now than it was two years ago," says a NATO official. "Then the whole thing appeared to hang by a thread." In the Latvian capital, tensions ran high over the inequitable commitments of NATO members to military operations in Afghanistan - what the countries with sizable troop deployments in dangerous areas refer to as "burden sharing." Those tensions remain, but a commitment by France to send up to 1,000 troops to eastern Afghanistan, made before this summit and confirmed on Thursday...