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...Obama's Red Dawn Re Michael Kinsley's essay, "That Wealth Spreader," it is clear that John McCain's campaign has fallen back on an old, tired McCarthyist anthem and it is ugly [Nov. 10]. With much of the world and many staunch conservatives all endorsing Obama, how do they call him a socialist with a straight face? It shows how little faith they have in the strength of their own ideals and the credibility of their own party after eight years of Bush. This smacks of desperation and deceit. Fred Grygiel, Sea Girt...
Just as the Detroit Three are asking Washington for a financial lifeline, so too their Canadian counterparts want Ottawa to staunch hemorrhaging balance sheets. The difference is that in Canada the heads of the Detroit Three have left it to the CAW and the Auto Parts Manufacturers' Association to take the lead on a government bailout. "Obama is going to protect U.S. jobs," says CAW president Ken Lewenza, referring to President-elect Barack Obama. "The Canadian government has to play an active role or it could be left out in the cold manufacturing nothing...
...yarder, and then the capper, a 40-yard bomb in which he outmaneuvered two defenders and stretched into the end zone.Olawale was replaced by the other half of Columbia’s quarterback duo, junior Shane Kelly, but he fared no better than his counterpart against the staunch Harvard defense.On his fourth play of the game, Kelly scrambled and made an unwise throw into the hands of freshman cornerback Matt Hanson, who returned it 28 yards to the Lion 16-yard line.Pizzotti lofted it into the end zone to Luft for a 17-yard touchdown, making the score...
...contributed over $200,000 to the Obama campaign in direct donations, and two of Harvard’s most distinguished law professors—Tribe and Cass R. Sunstein ’75, Obama’s erstwhile colleague at the University of Chicago—emerged as staunch backers of his presidential campaign...
...last-ditch effort to persuade last-minute voters, Republicans in South Florida have resorted to robo-calls in which they describe former Cuban President Fidel Castro as supporting Barack Obama for President. "The calls began this past weekend," says Kendall Coffey, former U.S. Attorney in Miami and a staunch Democrat. The calls quoted Cuba's official newspaper, Granma, when referencing Castro's support, Coffey says. "The robo-calls started three or four days ago. I haven't heard them, but my friends in the Cuban-American community have. They are targeting Democrats and Republicans based on age, because older Cubans...