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...joined the program, 33 of which were from Harvard. According to Kopp’s 2001 book “One Day, All Children,” Kopp developed the idea for TFA in her undergraduate thesis at Princeton in 1989 and founded the organization in 1990. In her speech, Kopp highlighted the “three big lessons” TFA has learned while navigating the American public education system during the past 18 years. First, she emphasized that the achievement gap in American public schools is “solvable,” and that Americans have...
...town hall in New Hampshire was McCain's third public event of the day, which ended with a midnight rally in Miami. At every other stop, McCain delivered his closing stump speech and took no questions. His tone at those events was fiercely negative, and his speech was filled with broadsides against Obama. "Senator Obama said the other day that his primary victory vindicated his faith in America," goes one of McCain's new lines, which questions Obama's patriotism. "My friends, my country has never had to prove anything...
...Thank you for your friendship," he told the New Hampshire crowd on Sunday night. The people roared their approval, shaking their pom-poms and screaming his name. An hour later, McCain returned to his motorcade and then back to his campaign plane, taking off to deliver his stump speech over and over again for the final 36 hours of the campaign. No one knows when he will next have a reason to return to New Hampshire...
...Obama acknowledged in his acceptance speech at the convention, his grandmother was the rock on which his character and future were built. "She's the one who taught me about hard work," he said. "She's the one who put off buying a new car or a new dress for herself so that I could have a better life. She poured everything she had into me. And although she can no longer travel, I know that she's watching tonight, and that tonight is her night as well...
...loving grandson could also be a judging one, as Obama showed in his Philadelphia speech on race early this year. He attempted to explain his relationship with his former pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, by talking about another complicated relationship: "I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother - a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed her by on the street...