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...fact is that there are many people in the world; some lie, some are very mean. Legislation “protecting” us from these types of people is excessive and panders to an emotional story at the expense of the individual’s right to free speech...
...group, plus team coordinator Stephanie H. Lo ’10, will get $15,000 of the prize. The Fed Challenge is an economics competition sponsored by the Federal Reserve. Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke ’75, who attended the competition, praised the competitors in his keynote speech and said that the Fed Challenge is the best way for students to learn about the Fed’s role in setting U.S. monetary policy. A panel of judges made up of Senior Vice Presidents of the Federal Reserve grilled each team with questions after their presentations. The teams...
...ring a silver bellhop bell whenever an organizer signs up a new precinct captain who has agreed to stand up and argue the candidate's case before friends and neighbors at one of the 1,784 caucuses that will be held across Iowa on Jan. 3. Since Obama's speech at the Iowa Democratic Party's Nov. 10 Jefferson-Jackson dinner - his most acclaimed performance since the 2004 National Convention address that made him a celebrity - the bell has dinged more than 233 times...
...campaign had not lived up to the promise of Obama's February announcement on the steps of the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Ill., a black man standing in front of the building where Lincoln had delivered his famous "House Divided" speech against slavery in 1858 and decrying "the failure of leadership, the smallness of our politics." Crowds turned out by the thousands to hear him almost everywhere he went, but they often left feeling oddly underwhelmed...
...Obama's Jefferson-Jackson dinner speech hit all the inspirational notes, with its pledge to bring Red America together with Blue America and its invocation of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "fierce urgency of now." But it was also an indictment, not only of the Bush brand of politics but of the Clinton one as well. "We have a chance to bring the country together in a new majority to finally tackle problems that George Bush made far worse but that had festered long before George Bush ever took office," he declared. "Triangulating and poll-driven positions ... just...