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...Wednesday, Sen. Joseph Biden boiled it down to a simple chant in his speech accepting the nomination as Obama's running mate. McCain equals Bush. "That's not change," Biden repeated again and again as he laced into the Republicans. "That's more of the same...
Even the second day, the theme was still just a shadow behind a screen. It lay between the lines of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's speech on Tuesday - perhaps the most anticipated speech of the convention. Everyone knew how Obama would sound, but what would she say, after losing such a close fight for the nomination, and bearing all the inevitable resentments and what-ifs and wounded pride that entails? Clinton declared emphatically that she supports Obama, yet afterward many of the conventioneers were annoyed with how she said it. She didn't talk about about Obama's virtues...
...medical experts from around the world, including two former heads of state (a president of Chile and a prime minister of Mozambique), as well as two former directors of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and, for good measure, an economics Nobel laureate, the Harvard-based Amartya Sen. The team of commissioners combed through health data from around the world, and based on that evidence, drew up recommendations to narrow the inequalities of circumstance and opportunity that affect health. The suggestions are broad, only semi-concrete policies that are general enough to be applied to almost every country...
Leach, a five-term Republican Congressman from Iowa voted out in 2006, was introduced to the group assembled at Denver's Pepsi Center by Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA). Leach made waves earlier this month by joining a group of three Republicans in endorsing Barack Obama for President...
Kennedy endorsed Hillary Clinton for President in November 2007 and was later joined by his sister, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend '73. Those endorsements caused a split in the Kennedy family when Mass. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 and Caroline Kennedy '80, daughter of President John F. Kennedy '40, both endorsed Barack Obama in early...