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...Problem of Appearance McCain's trouble with influence-peddling dates to 1987, when he found himself ensnared in the Keating Five scandal. He had met with federal regulators on behalf of banker Charles Keating Jr., a wealthy fund raiser and friend who had flown the McCain family on private jets to vacations in the Bahamas. A Senate ethics panel found that McCain had exercised "poor judgment" but had broken no rules. The honor-bound Senator was nonetheless rattled. "Appearance in politics," McCain said years later, "is reality...
Woody Mosby, a 59-year-old semi-retired architect, got to know the concrete corridor between Dunkin' Donuts and tracks 1 & 2 of Philadelphia's Suburban train station really well this Easter weekend. Mosby was registering voters on behalf of Barack Obama, and by his count he'd gotten more than 130 forms filled out by Monday afternoon. "The deadline's today, register to vote!" Mosby, in an Oxford shirt and slacks, shouted over a flutist - a lifelong Republican Mosby had already converted - busking nearby. When people stopped he not only offered help filling out their forms, he gave them...
...presidency last fall—so we hope that this continues once he begins his work with administrators, whose views are likely quite different than this. As the sole voice of student perspective, he bears a particularly heavy obligation to lobby extensively on behalf of the student population. Most notably, we hope that Sundquist will wield his influence in the area of the Ad Board’s readiness to resolve far too many student issues with a mandatory year of leave. This policy is ridiculous. It constitutes a one-size-fits-all solution to a wide range of problems...
...chance to meet a number of people who came to the state to campaign on behalf of Obama. When Sen. Richard J. Durbin was in New Hampshire, Lee and a fellow Obama employee were given the task of driving him around the state...
...Middle East, normalizing relations with China and avoiding war with the Soviet Union. I had often met with a nation's leader without comprehending the daily struggles of its average citizen. Fortunately, this time around, I had both the opportunity and the sensibility to do things differently. Working on behalf of The Carter Center, we persuaded other organizations--including the World Health Organization, unicef, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Peace Corps--to join in the fight against the illness. When we started fighting the disease, guinea worm was in 20 African and Asian countries. Today...