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...Echo has begun to recover memories, and the actives show a tendency to occasionally go haywire. It turns out that human memory is like an analog cassette tape: overwrite it too many times, and you start to hear the ghosts of old voices. Actives are meant to be clean slates, with no messy human baggage. But as preamnesia Echo notes, "You ever try cleaning an actual slate? You can always see what was on it before...
...white country club. At one point, one of Steele's rivals was Ken Blackwell, an African American and a former Ohio secretary of state, who was widely viewed as too dogmatically conservative to head a party desperate for moderation and who eventually threw his support behind Steele. The original slate of candidates included Tennessee GOP chairman Chip Saltsman, who had distributed a CD containing a song titled "Barack the Magic Negro...
...Crimson, meanwhile, now has a defining victory on its resume as the team heads into league play. Harvard opens its Ivy League slate at Dartmouth on Saturday night. The Crimson has now matched its win total from last season, when Harvard finished...
Perhaps it's residual behavior from the campaign. Obama was something of a blank slate coming into the primary season one short year ago, and he used a loose network of "advisers" to draw politically convenient pictures of himself for voters. When he needed to look strong on Israel, for example, he brought in Dennis Ross, a former top negotiator who has sided with Israel in policy disputes over recent years. When he wanted to look conservative on money matters he tapped the guru of anti-inflation policy, Paul Volcker. (See pictures of Barack Obama's college years...
...Portuguese public opinion on accepting detainees. But Anthony Dworkin, senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, says it sets the tone for what the E.U. hopes will be a fresh start once Obama takes office. "It is a symbol of Europe's eagerness to clean the slate and forge a different relationship," he says. But the price of European cooperation will be the expectation that from now on the U.S. fight terrorism on the basis of international rules and norms rather than on the unilateral improvisations that created the Guantánamo problem in the first place...