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...obits and big donors so depressed, they were lined up to jump off that bridge to the 21st century. Her events felt flat and forced; the sound system wouldn't work well; the mike screeched back at her. Clinton's crowds each day, impressive by normal standards, could not rival Obama's immense events, so staffers were reduced to moving risers and limiting entry to create the appearance of overflow. Conservative fund raisers, meanwhile, were pondering in emails to one another whether to cut Clinton's name from their direct-mail appeals and paste in Obama's. A G.O.P. operative...
...armed conflicts share elements of atrocity and tragedy, but civil wars can be the most uncivil. Often, such hostilities involve rival ethnic groups, each wanting its own identity and space and, often, these disputes are the most emotional and intractable. So it is with Sri Lanka. Colombo's decision to officially pull out of a 2002 cease-fire agreement with the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (L.T.T.E.) was just a confirmation of what Sri Lankans have known for months - war has returned to the strife-torn Indian Ocean island nation...
...raise its spending rate significantly above the 3.7 percent the school has paid out this fiscal year. Harvard’s rate is now 4.3 percent. Though Yale’s $22.5 billion-endowment trails Harvard’s by more than $10 billion, the fund has outperformed its rival for more than a decade. In response to the ballooning size of university coffers, some legislators have sought to require that educational institutions spend at least 5 percent of their endowment annually. “The donations to those endowments and the endowments themselves are all tax-exempt...
...course, Obama will be more closely scrutinized now. He will have news organizations and rival operations assessing his voting records, personal investments and stump speeches for even a whisper of inconsistency or impropriety...
...rival will now continue to have access to plenty of money to contest his unusual campaign in all of the states over the next few weeks, including Nevada, South Carolina, New York and California. He has had to watch Clinton march on to his rhetorical ground, as she overhauls her on-the-stump-image and tries to make the theme of change her new best friend. And perhaps most importantly, she has been kicked to the ground by the voters in the first fortnight of the new year and gotten back on her feet - a huge psychological boost in politics...