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...There are other issues at play. It remains to be seen whether Jill Long Thompson, the Democrats' gubernatorial candidate, can ride the expected surge of Obama's supporters. The incumbent Republican governor, Mitch Daniels, is popular and has cast himself as change agent. He was an early McCain supporter, but has been reluctant to appear at Palin's rallies. "It's a changed environment, a challenging environment, and he wants to appeal beyond his party's base," says Feigenbaum...
...Some states - like Wisconsin, North Carolina and Virginia - require another U.S. citizen to sign the ballot as a witness. That was a challenge for Catherine Thompson-Coffe, who lives on a farm in Vendoges, a remote area of France, where there are no other Americans. She called the U.S. Embassy, who sent her a FWAB. "I think it should be easier to vote," says Thompson-Coffe. A debate stirred in Virginia a few days ago when the Fairfax County registrar was not going to count dozens of military ballots that came from overseas because they were missing the address...
...completed at age 12. The exhibit concentrates on Boulanger’s effect on America and especially the impact she made in Cambridge and Boston. “Nadia Boulanger’s influence reached across America,” Craft says. “As composer Virgil Thompson said, ‘Every small town in America has two things in common: a five and dime, and a student of Nadia Boulanger.’” The exhibit also includes correspondences between Boulanger and some of her students. Most of the pieces in the exhibit are from...
...rarely stumbled, excepting minor lapses in memory, and displayed a remarkable poise on stage through the mastery of the challenging script. Despite the show’s unorthodox approach to language as a means of engaging with the audience, the stage setup is remarkably straightforward. Designed by Courtney E. Thompson ’09, the scenery consists of a whitewashed façade of a two-story home enclosed by a white-picket fence—the quintessential definition of the archetypal middle-class Americana landscape—and the interior of a kitchen. As the action transitions between these...
...With reporting by Mark Thompson / Washington