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...Your "Five Faces of Barack Obama" omitted the face I consider most salient: the wimp. Having backed down on the things he should have stood up for - peace, separation of church and state, the environment - he is now a Republican lite, like John Kerry was. That's not change I can believe in, and I am afraid it will cost him the election. Janet Maker, Los Angeles...
...refugee camps before emigrating to America. Portraits also included a famous musician, several Hollywood actors, a Puerto Rican delegate, a farmer from Nebraska with a PhD from Yale, and a gay former Republican operative ousted from his party and now working for Obama. Never before has the Democratic Party stood for so many—and so many at once...
...help as freshmen trickled through the Science Center doors. “It’s like a hurricane. It’s like New Orleans,” said a passing freshman. University President Drew G. Faust, Assistant Dean of the College John L. Ellison, and other administrators stood outside discussing what to do. “Nobody was hurt,” Ellison said. But he added that “there’s no way we can know” how many freshmen were informed and directed to a place to stay, and how many were...
University President Drew G. Faust, Assistant Dean of the College John L. Ellison, and other administrators stood outside discussing what...
...week progressed, it became apparent that Palin stood diametrically opposed to McCain on issues large and small. She passed a windfall-profits tax on the oil companies - the very sort of tax that McCain excoriated Obama for favoring - which successfully swelled the coffers of the Alaskan treasury. She didn't believe global warming was a man-made phenomenon; McCain had confronted Republican orthodoxy on that issue - boldly, at first, and timidly more recently...