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...your seat belt on. Sure, it was a little weird when he started campaigning for President in 1992, but we looked past that because he had given us so much and because back then running for President was just an adorable hobby designed to entertain Larry King. When Nader ran in 2000, taking key votes from Al Gore, however, he alienated every conceivable base. Now Democrats hate him for getting George Bush elected. Republicans hate him for getting George Bush elected...
...started to flow." He gaped in amazement as a geyser of scalding sludge shot five meters into the air, collapsing the roof of his neighbor's house. Mudakir froze. Then he gathered his mother and two brothers from inside his own house. "The whole village was panicking. Everyone ran." Mudakir didn't stop to collect his family's belongings. He assumed he'd be able to return home...
...Yale, Page says he reaffirmed his faith and decided he wanted to become ordained. As he was preparing to graduate, he ran into Peter J. Gomes, who has served as the minister of Memorial Church since 1970. Page says Gomes encouraged him to apply for the Epps fellowship, which sponsors a newly ordained seminarian to serve as Memorial Church’s chaplain to the undergraduate community for two years. Page calls it a dream...
...Bill's presence has become a reminder of the past and of the style of politics that Barack Obama has promised to bring to an end. Even worse, say many Democrats, Bill has put his wife's political career in jeopardy by displaying the same character traits that almost ran his own presidency off the rails - a lack of self-control and an excess of self-absorption. It hasn't always been clear whether Bill Clinton sees Obama as a threat to his wife's prospects, or to his own legacy...
...people as they leave. A former state representative and the first openly gay member of the Texas Legislature, Maxey is running for county tax collector. Tonight he has passed out some 3,000 flyers. At the Obama rally six days ago he had given out 5,000 and ran out of them. Running an "insurgent" campaign against a longtime incumbent, he has thrown in his lot with Obama. "I can knock on 50 doors in two hours or I can train 200 Obama supporters to go to the caucuses," Maxey says. What does he expect on Tuesday? "A wipeout...