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...Liberals' next biennial convention isn't due until spring 2007, but insiders are already lobbying for a leadership confab as early as this fall. That would give would-be candidates less than six months to recruit delegates and build a campaign team--one reason that pressure is already building for hopefuls to declare themselves. Former Justice Minister Martin Cauchon was among the first to sniff the winds: he called a prospective supporter (unsuccessfully) three times for lunch. Others, like former Newfoundland Premier Brian Tobin, powerful Toronto-area M.P.s Maurizio Bevilacqua and Joe Volpe and former hockey great Ken Dryden...
...serve in this office without being grateful for the privilege of working with this stellar faculty, no small number of whom I have had the honor to recruit; of being supported by the dedicated staff that serves us all in FAS; of meeting and befriending our wonderful alumni; and—above all—serving the students for whom, at the end of the day, this University exists...
Congressman Rahm Emanuel boasts that ?patience ain?t a virtue in my book,? and that's especially clear when the feisty Democrat from Illinois is trying to recruit candidates to run in November's mid-term elections. Last summer, for instance, when Emanuel tried to convince Heath Shuler, former star quarterback at the University of Tennessee, to run for Congress from his native North Carolina, he had to make a hard sell. Shuler said he was worried he wouldn?t get enough time with his two young children if he was constantly shuttling back and forth from Capitol Hill...
...Back in the yearbook office, Byrns and Steinert are discussing how to recruit new staffers...
It’s almost a cliché. Political commentators and elected officials from both sides of the political spectrum agree: the American military gets its recruits from America’s poor. There’s just one problem. They’re all wrong. Kinda.In my last column, I mentioned in passing that the American military tends to be made up of America’s most disadvantaged citizens. The image of the military as the last refuge of the poor has gotten a lot of play since the start of the Iraq war. It?...