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Toward the end of his remarks, Kerry tempered these salvos with a remarkably direct address to President Bush that still strove to avoid a negative tone, in keeping with the convention’s general tenor of strength in cooperative unity...
...attacks on Bush, Kerry still spent a good deal of time at the podium striving to avoid the impression of partisanship...
...drivers will put up two fingers in response to my query, which means they want me to pay double the fare, or one buck. When this happens I usually roll out a toothy smile and an Arabic “Please uncle?” to try to avoid paying more. It usually works, though I hear that the drivers fleece many foreigners who don’t know the system. William M. Rasmussen ’04, a former Crimson news executive who is here working at the same newspaper that I am, once paid $10 for a trip...
Obama seemed the only speaker who was able to pull off what the Dems were aiming for with any success. Deftly modulating his style from high to low, common-sense talk to vaulted preaching, big-picture issues to personal journey, Obama knew how to avoid being another caged animal in a superficial circus: He was the circus, jumping from topic to topic and mood to mood so swiftly that the audience had no choice but to come along for the ride. This was unabashed politics, genuine and forceful, and the contrast with the night’s other speakers...
...banana boat holding what appears to be two men scoots past the ACV. Jumping into the tender, the three officers chase it down. The boat turns out to be carrying 15 people - infants, a grandmother, men, women and children - huddled beneath black plastic sheeting to stay dry and avoid the cold wind. Their documents are in order. By 0900, half the Yorke funeral travelers have passed the checkpoint and there's still no sign of the smuggler...