Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...generally among young people, so it’s very exciting to see them supporting us,” Covington said. The Obama supporter, who joined the festivities in Canaday, said the election fever may interfere with his academic duties. “I might just not go to sleep,” Covington said. “I have a Chinese oral midterm tomorrow.” —Staff Writer Esther I. Yi can be reached at estheryi@fas.harvard.edu...
...Humane Society of the United States is still trying to stop animal shelters from putting discarded pets to sleep. But the group has turned much of its attention in another direction - industrialized agriculture. A Humane Society-backed proposition to require more humane treatment of farm animals is before California voters on Election Day. TIME talked to Wayne Pacelle, the group's president, about his differences with PETA, why everyone doesn't have to go vegetarian (at least not yet), and the trauma of being an undercover slaughter house investigator...
...final day of a history-making, 21-month-long presidential campaign turned out to be a bittersweet one for Barack Obama, as he learned that the white grandmother who had helped raise him had died in her sleep, and would not live to see whether her grandson would become the nation's first African-American president. Madelyn Dunham "was one of those quiet heroes that we have all across America," Obama told supporters on a rain-sodden field at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte. "They aren't seeking the limelight. All they're trying...
...Steve Bartman moment. On the book's cover, he raises the question "How many Democrats does it take to lose the most winnable election in American history?" And in the book's "Ask Mike!" section, he addresses this poser: "Is it true Democrats drink from a sippy cup and sleep with the lights...
...Still, it's hard to argue that the left in general and gays in particular should sit on their hands while foes outspend them. Strategically, the Cabinet makes sense; most people who defend its secrecy offer a Machiavellian understanding of ends and means. "I could lose a lot of sleep about it, and I do wonder why they have abandoned [gay] organizations that have a 35-year track record in order to have their own operations," says a seasoned Washington gay activist. "But if that's the way the rules of the game are being played, I need to maneuver...