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...first person to arrive outside Des Moines' HyVee Center on Saturday morning - a mere seven hours before Oprah Winfrey would take the stage - was Heather Spurlin. Dressed for a long wait in snowy 12-degree weather, Spurlin, 37, is exactly the kind of person Barack Obama hoped Oprah would draw: a woman voter who knows what she's doing every day at 4pm, but isn't sure whom she'll support on Jan. 3. "Oprah's so personable and funny," said Spurlin, who's never caucused before but participated in an Obama campaign training session in order...
...making gains with Iowa women even before Oprah's arrival - a November Des Moines Register poll showed Obama topping Hillary Clinton with Iowa women for the first time, with his 31% to Clinton's 26% - and Winfrey's appearance certainly kept up the momentum. When she took the stage in a purple velvet suit, the mostly female crowd exploded in joy. Many women were moved to tears. "Iowa - Hellloo! Hellloo!" yelled Winfrey. "Oh my goodness. At last, I'm here...
...Quite frankly, the division is extremely detrimental. The basic field is the basic field. It’s a shame that all the dancers don’t share something.”Nevertheless, she says she does her part, in the classroom and on the stage, to give them all something to think about. Dakin literally embodies history, but with an intensity that makes it impossible to ignore.Bergmann is enthusiastic when he sums up her qualities: “When she’s on stage, the whole dance makes sense...
...great composers, and somebody who was a very unique, very powerful character,” says director Sean P. Bala ’09. “He has had a very large impact on theater in particular, but also American culture in general.” Larson originally staged “Tick, Tick…BOOM!” as a “rock monologue.” After his early death, his family commissioned David Auburn, the author of “Proof,” to re-arrange the script for a three-person cast...
...conservative Felipe Calderon by less than 0.5 percent of the vote in an election that was decided in the courts. The charismatic silver-haired leftist claims he was robbed, and calls himself "Mexico's legitimate President" at mass meetings and marches, where Ebrard sometimes takes second place on the stage...