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...mutual responsibility to make this world a better place. The strength of the Obama movement among young people even has ripple effects among their parents. Two examples are of influential women, Caroline Kennedy and Senator Claire McCaskill, who have spoken about the enthusiasm of their children as the motivating factor that caused them to get behind Senator Obama’s bid for the presidency. This is in no small part thanks to Senator Obama’s inclusive rhetoric on the campaign trail that employs phrases like “Yes we can,” which lend...
...unit was more than up to the task.“Once again, guys were blocking shots when they needed to, [playing] in the right position, getting the puck all the way down the ice,” Taylor said. “[The penalty kill] was a big factor tonight.”While Taylor’s shorthanded strike represented the obvious special-teams highlight of the evening, the penalty kill performed admirably on every Big Red power-play opportunity. Each Cornell man-advantage began with Harvard dumping the puck into the Big Red zone, and the Crimson...
...believe in”—seems to have touched a widespread nerve amongst Democrats of all stripes, particularly when compared with the distinctly uninspiring and combative style of his opponent. It remains to be seen, however, just how valuable the American people believe this x-factor to be contra John McCain—a candidate with Hillary’s foreign policy credentials and without such widespread (albeit superficial and oft-overstated) “dislikeability.” Painting a Purple Heart winner as “anti-hope,” I would hazard, could present...
...TIME:Didn't experience, circumstance and age factor in? If you were, say, the Dee Dee Myers of 2007, would Panetta have said the same thing...
...never worked that way, which is why Lincoln's statue occupies a marble temple on the Mall in Washington, while his far more experienced rival William Seward has a little seat on a pedestal in New York City. "Experience never exists in isolation; it is always a factor that coexists with temperament, training, background, spiritual outlook and a host of other factors," says presidential historian Richard Norton Smith. "Character is your magic word, it seems to me - not just what they've done but how they've done it and what they've learned from doing...