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...absence from college to work for the Obama campaign on the New Hampshire New Media team. As I blogged and edited videos of his daily events, I watched him draw people of all backgrounds. It was their stories that strengthened my faith in Obama’s ability to transform this nation. It was the wife of a war veteran who held signs at rallies so that no other solder would share her husband’s fate. It was the cancer patient who made phone calls to make sure that all Americans had affordable health care...
...Venky wanted to right the ship and accepted the position of dean of the engineering division in 1998. In doing so, he revolutionized the discipline at Harvard and became the force that would transform the engineering division into a school...
...think it suffers from what all student governments suffer from—namely that students expect it to transform the University,” he said recently. “That’s never going to happen. But it has been very effective, particularly when it addresses things that are immediately relevant to students...
...Great Oil Bonanza of the early 21st century is helping to transform former backwaters like Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Qatar and Bahrain into glittering hubs for business, travel and culture. Still, there are plenty of threats that could spoil this party. For a start, there are the wildcard geopolitical risks that can never be ruled out in a region plagued by instability. In one nightmare scenario, Tehran would respond to a U.S. strike on Iran's nuclear program by lobbing missiles at cities in Gulf states like Qatar that are closely allied with Washington; in another, a terrorist group such...
...entering the Senate as a former First Lady in 2001. Returning to the Senate now after having won millions of votes and raised hundreds of millions of dollars, Clinton could bring attention to a legislative agenda, such as health care, that few senators can match. "A leadership role to transform health care in America would be a natural for her," said Stephen Schneck, a political science professor at Catholic University in Washington. "Given her skills and organization on health care, it is easy to imagine that she'd be able to build a strong coalition of support on the Hill...