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...farm towns as well as the college town of Ames and fast-growing Des Moines suburbs), where the well-funded, seven-term Republican incumbent Tom Latham is facing a stiffer-than-usual challenge from Democrat Becky Greenwald, a political newcomer who has earned national attention and is hoping to ride a Democratic wave to victory if Obama wins. Iowa is among only four states that have never sent a woman to Congress (of those four, which include Vermont and Delaware, Iowa and Mississippi have also never elected a female governor.) - By Betsy Rubiner / Des Moines...
...this overcast election morning in Miami, Basurto, in a neatly pressed shirt and golf cap, was one of the seniors sitting at the Obama campaign office in Little Havana waiting for a ride to the polls to cast a ballot in his first U.S. election. "I like this fellow Obama," he said in Spanish. "I agree with my daughter that it's time for a change around here, and he seems to have a more open mind than McCain." Basurto, who doesn't exactly hail from Ecuador's lily-white élite, is also pleased by the fact that Obama...
...those are questions for another day. The big news tonight is that whether or not there's a Bradley effect, it's nowhere near as big as the Bush effect. And now a guy who would have had to ride the back of the bus in some of this country when he was a kid has grown up to run this country. Historians will remember that...
...muster much support. The lively second movement was buoyant with running 16th notes in the strings like a motor beneath the orchestra. The speed occasionally got the better of the strings, as the sound sometimes lost its crispness, but Yannatos again gave the audience a thrilling ride. The slow third movement features striking, solemn chorales in the horns and bassoons and a lush string sound. In the tumultuous final movement, the strings nimbly ducked under and crept over the winds, and the piece finished with a fulfilling culmination of the momentum that had gathered throughout, capping off the performance...
...friend giving me a ride swapped just a couple of grim words with his wife on his cell phone, then turned to me. "They fired her," he said sadly. "There go our plans." The wife, who had enjoyed a cushy bank job, then joined the tens of thousands of Russia's new middle class who have found themselves newly unemployed...