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...What team I drive for next season, I don't know," Earnhardt said matter-of-factly while reading from his notes, adding with unintended and almost comic understatement, "We'll see what opportunities I have. We'll see who wants to hire me, who's interested...
...world—without ever turning the gaze inward. Harvard students, many insist, occupy the same social playing field. Financial aid is generous; everyone eats the same dining hall food and lives in the same dorms. Due to public transportation and the paucity of parking in Cambridge, few students drive around flashy cars. In short, there are few ways for us to materially differentiate ourselves from each other...
...Prior to their installation of the Iraq Awareness Display, the Dems held a Candlelight Vigil at Tercentenary Theater. There were also a number of projects undertaken to physically support the troops (a phrase we invoke, but often don’t act upon), including a donation drive they co-sponsored with the Harvard Republican Club and ROTC. In other words, the Iraq Awareness Project was a series of solidly forward-thinking events. But the display–well that’s a prime example of how progressives lose focus at Harvard...
...foreign aid that really make a difference in a poor country. A couple of weeks ago, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama led the way by proposing that the U.S. double its foreign-aid spending by 2012. In the wake of Iraq, sending more taxpayer dollars abroad doesn't exactly drive focus groups wild. But if Republicans really want democracy to endure, they should match Obama or raise him. "The true desire of all mankind," Obama said, "is not only to live free lives but lives marked by dignity and opportunity, by security and simple justice." In the slums of Lagos...
...broad-shouldered, Bible-quoting broth of a man who burns brightly with the fire of missionary zeal." TIME noted that George Romney was a particular hit at women's clubs, where he would fix them with "his blue-grey eyes" and say, "Ladies, why do you drive such big cars? You don't need a monster to go to the drugstore for a package of hairpins. Think of the gas bills!" Turning those sales techniques to politics wasn't much of a stretch...