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Barack Obama knows his background is about as unconventional as Illinois voters will probably ever see in a Senate candidate. He was born in Hawaii, the son of a Kenyan economist and a white mother from Kansas, and spent four years of his childhood in Indonesia. His last name rhymes with Osama. So he begins every campaign speech with the question on the audience's mind: "How does a skinny guy with a funny name win an election...
...Professor Shleifer received great praise for the project,” Nemser said. “Against that background, it’s very hard that the government would be able to prove any damage at all—they certainly haven’t been able to come up with a theory of damage that has impressed anyone at this point...
...voters decided they wanted to win. So they said, We need to pick the person we think has got the best chance to win, and this guy looks like a President, talks like a President, he's got a good military record, good security and economic background. He's the one. So John Kerry wins, and by the way, I don't think the voters are wrong. My own experience with him is, just from the psychological factors, I think he would be a successful President...
...talked almost hourly that first day. Sometimes I called her to find out where she was and remind her to check the oil when she fueled up. Sometimes she called me just to talk because the route was "so boring." It was often hard to hear her over the background noise. She drove with the windows down and the CD player blaring...
Early inconsistency, however, sent Harvard tumbling from the polls and unleashed a series of background grumblings from that group, muted only by the seven straight wins that propelled the Crimson to the ECAC crown. Harvard’s third-period collapse against Maine in the first round of the NCAA tournament—a disappointing exit, given the high expectations carved out prior to the season—reignited those criticisms...