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...Obama stepped off the national stage and joined campaign volunteers on the ground in Ohio, going door to door to pick up votes. Though Obama only spent an afternoon walking through the community that day, Michael L. Zuckerman ’10 has been working in northeastern Ohio on behalf of the campaign since the beginning of the semester, talking to locals about issues of political importance. He called his greatest challenge “making sure that I am working as hard for the people of Mahoning Valley and the principles that we hold in common as they have...
...Hayes also crossed paths with President John Quincy Adams, Class of 1787, who was a major presence on campus and who was a noted orator on behalf of the abolitionist cause...
Kerry M. Healy ‘82, former lieutenant governor of Massachusetts and senior adviser to W. Mitt Romney’s unsuccessful presidential campaign, spoke on behalf of John McCain while Steven Grossman, former national chairman of the Democratic National Committee, represented Barack Obama on issues ranging from Iran to the domestic politics of Israel...
...weeks before Virginia's legislative elections in 2005, a researcher working on behalf of a clandestine group of wealthy, gay political donors telephoned a Virginia legislator named Adam Ebbin. Then, as now, Ebbin was the only openly gay member of the state's general assembly. The researcher wanted Ebbin's advice on how the men he represented could spend their considerable funds to help defeat anti-gay Virginia politicians...
...assassination of two western DHL employees less than a week later. The bomb attack on the Ministry of Culture and Information, not far from the presidential palace, appears to have targeted the ministry's foreign advisers, according to the Taliban spokesman who claimed responsibility for the attack on behalf of his organization in an interview with the Associated Press. Three attackers rushed the gate of the ministry, according to police witnesses; one was detained, one escaped and the third detonated himself in the entryway, killing five people, wounding another five and badly damaging the building and surrounding shops...