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...film The Candidate, the Robert Redford character asks his campaign manager, "What do we do now?" The implication is that the Senate race winner is weary, disillusioned and in no state to make the transition from rhetoric to reality. John Key has had no such problems. Having led the National Party to an emphatic triumph in New Zealand's Nov. 8 general election, ending nine years of Labour rule under Helen Clark, the former currency trader was pressing for a quick handover so he could attend the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders' summit in Peru from...
...Race Factor I was incredulous at T.D. Jakes' statement that "most blacks have not been blinded by race" [Nov. 17]. Virtually every black man, woman and child who has been interviewed has plainly stated the positive impact a black candidate had on mobilizing the black community to vote and become involved. I am a middle-aged white woman who voted for Obama because I believe him to be the best candidate. I do not pretend to empathize with the pain of racism, but to tell whites that Obama's race didn't have that much to do with why blacks...
...Jakes dismisses the idea that race played a role with black voters. His view may be racially sensitive and politically correct, but it fails to explain why more than 95% of blacks voted for Obama. I find it difficult to imagine what factor other than racial solidarity could have produced such overwhelming numbers. Andy Horvath, Elverson, Pennsylvania...
...conversation is at once colloquial and cerebral; “likes” and “you knows” are intermixed in discussions about “ethical commitments” based on race and Karl Marx’s “controversial doctrine.” At only 40 years old, Shelby is one of the younger tenured members of Harvard’s faculty—and his appointment came just nine years after he received his doctoral degree in philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh...
...political star continued to ascend. I captured the presidency of the sixth grade class and then the seventh grade class and finally I took the highest post in the National Junior Honor Society. I was on top of the world. I had already achieved so many firsts for my race and I knew in my heart that being the first black president of the U.S. was next. And then he came. With only the advantage of age over me, a black man from Chicago who went to Harvard (sound familiar?) stole my dream. But a strange thing happened...