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...solving this systemic issue, Kopp ended the speech on an optimistic note. “This world should be a different way and what I’ve learned from this is that it absolutely could be a different way,” she said. Kopp spent the subsequent hour answering questions from the audience, which ranged from practical issues of how the organization supports its core members to the idealism on which it is founded...
...presiddential hopeful’s platform. “Economic outcomes have been better under more progressive leadership,” he said, crediting the policies of former president Bill Clinton with spurring one of the most “prosperous times in American history.” (Summers spent his term as Treasury Secretary under Clinton.) The former University President currently serves as the Chairman of Hillel’s Council of Overseers, and has long been one of the organizations key supporters, according to Paula J. Dahari, Hillel’s director of development...
...almost entirely to the unpopularity of George W. Bush, Sununu looks headed for early retirement in the final days of a re-match against Shaheen. Although he has raised and spent more money than his Democratic opponent, Sununu has never led since she entered the race last December. He has been more sure-footed when they have faced off in debates throughout October, but he still trails Shaheen by an average of 8 percentage points in state polls. Shaheen hasn't done much more to define Sununu than to argue that he is too close to Bush...
However, Democrats argue that McCain is a "national" Senator who has spent more time in New Hampshire than in Arizona these past 18 months. In theoretical matchups for McCain's 2010 Senate re-election, he trails Napolitano by double digits. "McCain won his own primary by less than 50% here," says Weeg. "Half of the registered voters in Arizona have seen John McCain's name on the ballot once or never - that is how much the state has changed...
...biological father, who died in a car crash in Kenya in 1982, and his grandfather died in 1992, three years before his mother. But Obama's grandmother was always there. She took care of Obama when he was 10 and returned to Hawaii to attend school while his mother spent a few years continuing her anthropological research in Indonesia. At the time, his grandparents helped Obama get a scholarship to Punahou, an élite prep school on the island. All three of them lived in a small, two-bedroom apartment on Beretania Street in Honolulu...