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Black support of Obama soared after he won last winter's Iowa caucuses. But there were moments in this campaign when Obama was forced to manage the issue of race deftly and explain the unexplainable to a largely white electorate. Consider the case of his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. Obama joined Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago in the 1980s, when Obama was an obscure community organizer. Trinity gave Obama an entrée to the city's thriving black middle class, and Obama came to view Wright in particular as a mentor...
...week cycle. When you look at a menu, you try to mix up proteins, vegetables, and starches, and you try to mix it up from day to day as well as within each day. Then you have the seasonality. We have three seasons, and we base it on fall, winter, and spring. That’s one of the major ways we can control local buying and having more sustainable products.5. FM: And how do you see the menu changing in the near future?TAM: Well, the menu’s a combination of budget and what?...
...ironies of Fawkes' legacy is that he was a late addition to the infamous "Gunpowder Plot." Born a Protestant in 1570, Fawkes enlisted in the Spanish army in the Netherlands around 1593, shortly after converting to Catholicism. Co-conspirators Robert Catesby, Thomas Winter, Thomas Percy and John Wright enlisted Fawkes as a ringer, reasoning that his military skills - he had participated in the 1595 capture of Calais, France - and his anonymity as a foreign soldier made him an ideal candidate to help execute their plan...
...memorable, destinations in Europe has suddenly gone budget. Icelandair flights from New York City start at $500 round-trip, and decent hotels in the hip capital of Reykjavik - like the Centerhotel Thingholt - are as low as $60 a night. Sure, if you go in the late fall or winter you'll get only about five hours of sunlight a day - but Icelanders know how to make those hours count. Move fast - tourist agencies are reporting a huge spike in visitors to Iceland...
...cents. But that opens the Land of Thunder's many delights to the American budget traveler - once, of course, you mortgage your devalued home for a plane ticket. Round-trip tickets from New York City to Sydney are going for about $1,400. On the upside, when it's winter in the North, it's summer over there. (Except financially - then it's winter everywhere...