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...same time, the Clinton campaign stepped up its attacks on the media, insisting that Obama has been receiving kid-glove treatment. The theme sank into the broad public consciousness when Saturday Night Live returned from the writers' strike to make a recurring theme of the fawning press. Perhaps eager to prove that they can be equally tough on Obama, journalists filled that week with stories about Obama's Canada problem and his ties to an indicted Chicago real estate developer, Tony Rezko...
...should do more to help support civil society, particularly the lawyers and the journalists and the business leaders who have led the demonstrations against Musharraf's rule - who are very middle-of-the-road pro-democracy voices in Pakistan. The failure of the Bush Administration to do both strikes me as indicative of their single-minded, often narrow, view of American interests. It is not America's place at this time to be maneuvering the Pakistanis to make a decision about Musharraf's future. That has to be something that the Pakistanis decide. But it does strike me that...
...Obama's history is any guide, losses tend to speed him up, not slow him down. As a state senator in 2000, he took on the Cook County machine to challenge a sitting four-term Congressman and lost - a pre-emptive strike against the political establishment and a cocky signal that he wasn't going to wait his turn. Valerie Jarrett, a friend and now a top adviser, recalls hosting a small brunch at her house at the end of 2002, when Obama was weighing a bid for the U.S. Senate. "It was Michelle, Barack, myself and maybe...
...Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM)—stocking up for their next hunger strike...
...Dean of the College David R. Pilbeam—First the fun grants, now this...where will he strike next...