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Following Faust and Menino, Daniel P. Schrag, an earth and planetary sciences professor and the director of Harvard’s Center for the Environment, spent his speech describing the increasing atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide, the ensuing accelerated rate of Arctic ice melting, and the global repercussions of higher sea levels...
...resurrection, Hillary Clinton seemed exhausted, played out. She attended a funeral in Dallas for a policeman who had been killed in a traffic accident while accompanying her motorcade. Her campaign plane seemed funereal as well, reporters and staff sick - the dry, incestuous campaign coughs reverberating through the fuselage - and spent after the most intense eight-week run in the history of American politics. She wandered into Waco, Texas, that afternoon, uninspiring before an unimpressive crowd. In San Antonio that night, her stump speech collapsed into unstructured chaos. She yelled hoary Democratic clichés at the crowd - "Health care should...
...maneuvering" and shouldn't be taken seriously. The problem there wasn't merely that the North American Free Trade Agreement is (wrongly) considered synonymous with economic ruin in Ohio and not an issue on which a politician wants to be caught fudging but also that the Obama campaign had spent days denying a story that was obviously true...
...sure that the other oft-cited cause of Obama's stumble - Clinton's ad featuring the phone ringing in the White House at 3 a.m., which the Obama campaign called fearmongering - was all that effective. Until last week, Clinton had not spent any time at all exploiting her knowledge of military affairs and establishing herself as a strong Commander in Chief. In any case, Obama's lightning response - you want someone who was right about Iraq answering that phone - seemed devastatingly good. Even better was McCain's: if you want someone really experienced on national-security issues to answer...
...voters have the final say, so Huckabee persevered, despite single-digit polls and quarterly fund-raising totals well below what other campaigns spent in a week. He flew commercial airlines, carried his own bags, wrote his own talking points, and appeared on cable television every chance he got. By the fall, something was happening in Iowa, largely on the strength on his connection with Evangelical voters. And suddenly all the other candidates had to take notice. In a very literal way, Huckabee had succeeded in selling the merits of his own outsider story...