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...Hawke method is to touch. Shake hands, pat backs, kiss heads. One disheveled man tells him that although he's always voted Liberal, he won't vote for Turnbull: "All he wants is to be Prime Minister with all his money." For that line he gets an arm around him, as does the 92-year-old woman who whispers, "Can we get rid of that bastard?" Amid the laughter, no one checks whether she means Turnbull or the P.M. "You're good at this, Bob," someone shouts. "Thought of running again yourself?" Hawke's heard this before. "Been there, done...
This summer an unprecedented coalition, running the gamut of the advocacy world from rural development to health to business to the environment, emerged to help Kind and Republican Jeff Flake of Arizona try to shake up the system. Editorials thundered for reform, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco--the city of organic kale and "meat is murder"--vowed to deliver it. The moment seemed ripe for Democrats to challenge the status quo. Agribusiness was steering two-thirds of its campaign donations to Republicans, and just 19 of the 435 congressional districts were vacuuming up half of all subsidies...
...about getting rid of the Federal Reserve and returning to the gold standard. After a speech at Iowa State last month, when nearly half the crowd had to stand because there were only 400 seats, a hipster-looking student worked his way through the half-hour-long line to shake Paul's hand. This was surely it - the moment when the straight faces would break and Paul would be wedgied up the flagpole. "When you see Bernanke," the kid said, "will you tell him to stop cutting rates when gold hits...
...just for show," Sehgal explains. "You don't have to stand on your chair; the oxygen will drop down to you." The perky attendant runs through various drills ending with the life vest. "Do you know swimming?" she asks the boy. He looks around nervously before giving a small shake of his head...
...Everyone was rushing to the front,” said Clay A. Dumas ’10, who is also a member of The Crimson’s editorial board. “Luckily I was standing right where she was coming into the pizzeria, and I got to shake her hand.” —Staff writer Carolyn F. Gaebler can be reached at cgaebler@fas.harvard.edu...