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...when I ran for class representative of the fourth grade at Adler Park Elementary School. Winning would propel me onto the student council, the venerable body that met once a month to discuss the important issues—the rising prices of chocolate milk, the construction of a new swing set and the planning of the Adler family carnival. But I was at a steep disadvantage. There were only two black kids in my entire elementary school—me and my little brother—and so I had the task of convincing my white classmates that I should...
...know I do, as a member of more than one close community that could be rent asunder by the promise of a few swing votes, and as a constituent of a larger one that obsesses over the machinations of its governing body for one month of the year and nearly ignores it for the other eleven. I’m speaking, of course, about the Undergraduate Council, whose internal politics—insofar as it prevents things from getting done—concerns...
...flattery in their days of courtship. Frederick went on:“You are like a strong oak who has bloomed to full maturity. Your thick limbs are laden with leaves of crimson and scarlet hue! You are in the full glory of your autumn! Your pendulous breasts swing like overripe fruit!” Satisfied that he had spouted an ode of the highest poetic order, he skipped down the hall to fetch the Bible from his library.Felicity stood rooted in place, stunned and shaking. What did he mean by full maturity? She was a tender blossom! Strong...
...must be raised from private funds. Obama's goal, says his old friend Valerie Jarrett, another co-chair of the transition operation, "is to be able to be organized, efficient, disciplined and transparent to the American people." More disciplined than transparent: Washington's quadrennial parlor game is in full swing, with scores of names being circulated as contenders for top jobs in the Obama Administration. But the number of people who actually know anything is small, and they are not prone to leaking...
...Side and Cambridge lefties, they tag those Democrats as ideologically extreme and culturally élitist. Politicians from Chicago can be just as liberal as those from New York, New England and California, but they come from the much-fetishized heartland, which makes attacks on them a tougher sell to swing voters. And they have an advantage within the Democratic base as well: while party leaders have long assumed that only a Southerner could successfully take the White House, the party faithful have been skeptical of the centrist politics of many Southern candidates...