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North of the Yard, members of the Harvard Law School Students for Obama group spent the day calling voters on behalf of the Law School grad...
Majid Khan, 27, a former suburban Baltimore high school student, was first seized by authorities in Pakistan, where he said he was visiting his brother. Khan then spent more than three years in a secret overseas CIA "black site" before President Bush ordered his transfer to Guantanamo along with 13 other high-value detainees. Also transferred was alleged 9/11 mastermind Khaled Sheik Mohammed, who had allegedly ordered Khan to research attacks on American water reservoirs and gas stations...
...Neither the victories nor their deficiencies took the McCain campaign by surprise Tuesday night. McCain spent the run-up to the nearly-national primary responding to blistering attacks from iconic conservatives such as Rush Limbaugh, James Dobson and Sean Hannity. While all three talk for a living - and their antipathy for McCain is an old saw - the impact of their comments was undeniable; even in his home state of Arizona, McCain lost self-described conservatives to Mitt Romney 47%-36%. "Is it a problem when you're getting the crap kicked out of you on talk radio and Fox [News...
...primaries worked exactly as they were designed to work. The Republicans, who have held on to a winner-take-all system, may have clarified their race. The Democrats, meanwhile, who have spent the past 20 years using a proportional-representation system, ended up with the same tight race they had the day before. Clinton is ahead slightly, but it's still a race for delegates...
...recent days, major road and rail lines have begun to reopen, and the crowds of travelers outside the Guangzhou station are a fraction of their previous size. Qi Huilin, 39, and his 19-year-old son, Chunjie, who had spent the past six months working in a shoe factory, stood outside Wednesday, holding tickets bought earlier in the day. "Before it was impossible," Huilin says. It will be another day before their train begins the 16-hour journey home to Henan. They'll eat their New Year's Eve dinner in the station, he says, then try to find...