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...larger scale, this threat to the NBA exemplifies the darker side of globalization. While the benefits to these players—and the world basketball market generally—may increase as a result of their going abroad, there are inevitable costs. As a fundamentally American sport, born in Springfield, Mass. in 1891, moving players from their fan base would destroy the game at its popular epicenter Also, the move indicates the state of today’s economy. With an exchange rate that has fluctuated around $1.50 for every Euro, these foreign organizations have the purchasing power to offer...
...Obama campaign's commitment to every corner of the state is evident in rural Nixa, Mo., about a dozen miles south of Springfield and on the way to no place in particular. It sits in Christian County, which voted 70% Republican in the last presidential election. It's not the easiest part of the world to promote a candidate known for his statement that guns and religion might be the bitter psychological baggage of America's left-behind. Over the summer, state Republicans made hay of Obama's "field office" in Nixa, pop. roughly 17,000, which...
Beyond the classroom, Obama was an enigmatic figure at the law school, a bastion of conservative legal and economic scholarship that reveled in debate. He continued to teach even after becoming an Illinois state legislator, and perhaps because of the nearly four-hour commute to the capital of Springfield, Obama rarely attended the school's afternoon meetings, during which instructors and students discussed and argued a range of topics. To some degree, Obama's absence from those meetings isolated him from the highly opinionated scholars who were residents on campus, leading some to see it as an aloofness from...
...Iraq: $100 billion a year, or $8 billion a month, which is $275 million a day. So we spend the equivalent of our entire foreign aid to Ethiopia for one year in less than three days in Iraq. What does this say about our priorities? Bill Cosgriff, SPRINGFIELD, MASS...
...nominees, Joe Lieberman and John Edwards, were disappointments to Democrats in that regard. Obama himself has turned up the heat on McCain in recent days, and "we just doubled our fire power in the field," Illinois Senator Dick Durbin told MSNBC. Biden stepped onto the stage with Obama in Springfield, Ill., on Saturday, and immediately declared his intention to handcuff John McCain to an unpopular Republican President. McCain "is genuinely a friend of mine. I've known John for 35 years. He served our country with extraordinary courage and I know he wants to do right by America," Biden said...