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...have had a little excitement here for a few days past, occasioned by a skirmish between some of the Southern law students and the members of the senior class in college,” Hayes wrote in 1844. “It has resulted in a few slight bruises, the loss of a few soap-locks [greased long sideburns, in fashion at the time], and the expulsion of one or two from each department...
...file the paperwork.” Since the first week of September, he has been interning at the Obama for America National Campaign Headquarters in Chicago. He works for the office’s “south pod,” the main communications hub for all the southern states...
...Obama's itinerary this past week has ignored John McCain's attempts to flip blue-leaning Pennsylvania and instead focused on former GOP strongholds, such as southern Virginia, the dusty suburbs of Las Vegas and the rural southwestern corner of Missouri. Obama's closing strategy to win these Red states focuses on exurban and rapidly growing areas. He's not looking for victories in these counties, merely to improve his showing there enough to put him over the top in the state when added to record turnout in Democratic-heavy areas. "Like in Jacksonville [Florida, where Obama heads on Monday...
...surrounded himself with a “team of rivals,” putting aside grudges for the sake of preserving the Union. Dwight Eisenhower embraced it when he agreed to large-scale federal investments in the highway system. Lyndon Johnson embraced it when he lost a generation of Southern Democrats by signing the 1964 Civil Rights...
...market found some sort of gainful employment. Now GDP growth has dipped to around 9% and is expected to decline further as the worldwide financial crisis transmogrifies into a global recession. Already, scores of Chinese factories producing consumer goods like toys and plastics goods have shuttered in the southern industrial powerhouse of Guangdong, and thousands of unemployed workers have made their displeasure known with rowdy demonstrations last month...