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...People were just getting together on their own," remembers Tom, 60, a brown-eyed man with a cropped mustache. "I guess you could call it grass roots." Like thousands of others, Tom downloaded phone lists so he could cold-call potential supporters in the area. Mary spent hours typing names and addresses into Obama's national database. The first paid operatives finally arrived in the area weeks later, only to find a virtually organized Obama machine already up and running. When the campaign held its first statewide training sessions in March, some 2,000 people turned...
...Brown’s football team just recently demonstrated that NFL teams don’t take players based solely on their Ivy League performance. In the 2006 draft, the Bears running back, Nick Hartigan, who always kept Harvard-Brown contests close and finished his collegiate career with 2,761 yards, 33 TDs and fifth in the nation in scoring (10.2 points per game), went undrafted...
...following year, Brown lineman Zak DeOssie was the 17th pick in the fourth round by the New York Giants...
...very Brown notion - sincere, well-meaning, international. It won't lead the evening news, which is his problem. But perhaps it should, which is ours...
Such piety wins Brown little credit in the endemically cynical London media and political village. It may go down better in the land that he freely admits to loving. Typically, Brown has a policy proposal ready for the U.S. presidential candidates, one he ran past McCain during the Senator's recent visit to London. "I was trying to sell him on the idea that America's gift to the world should be to offer every child the chance of education," says Brown, adding that there are 72 million primary school-age children in the world not enrolled for class. "That...