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Given the similarity of their positions and that presidential campaigns inevitably turn on character, it seems likely that this Iowa caucus will be decided personally, viscerally, for reasons that the voters themselves can't always explain. In Algona, Iowa, I spoke with Chris and Martin Peterson, two former Republicans turned off by the Bush Administration, who seemed stumped by their own preferences this year. Chris was thinking about voting for Obama. "I just like him," she said. Her husband Martin was leaning toward Bill Richardson, citing the New Mexico Governor's humorous ads. This may dismay wonks, who want voters...
Sasha was not a normal kid. His parents told me he was a genuine child genius. Spoke three languages, did 12th-grade math, played violin and piano - if you read Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game or saw Little Man Tate, you know the type...
...When I say it scares me, it’s more like, “Wait a minute.” If you grew up in this kind of community, it wasn’t a community where people disrespected you because of the variety of language you spoke, it wasn’t a community that put you down because of the variety of language you spoke. It’s only when you come out of the community that you realize there are many different varieties [of English]. In that particular context, if they?...
After the anonymous senior, granted anonymity because of the personal nature of his confession, admitted to his ongoing pornography addiction, a freshman member spoke about contemplating suicide, and Chardaie C. Charlemagne ’08 described her long-standing anger toward her father...
...second speaker, who requested anonymity for this story because of the deeply personal nature of her confession, discussed her thoughts of suicide and attributed her depression to isolation at school and at home. She spoke candidly about how her parents would punish her “to the point where I thought they punished me because they wanted to punish...