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...Illinois Sen. Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee, victory in last Thursday’s Iowa caucuses means increased media exposure, a jump in donations, and a surge in polls nationwide. All of these gains supposedly justify the $30 million the candidates spent on advertising in Iowa and the approximately 350 visits to the state they made during the election season, which would otherwise be difficult to fathom considering Iowa’s few delegates. We are deeply troubled by this system. It gives undue influence, during each election cycle, to a handful of states with early primaries or caucuses, while...
...baby boomer slouching toward codgerization, the Obama victory was not so much about his generation - but the kids two generations behind him, the college kids and recent graduates, blissfully color-blind, who spent patient months as organizers out in the most rural counties. Obama would pay tribute to these organizers at each of his events, calling them to the stage, giving them props - and it was surprising how often the local residents in places like Algona and Mt. Pleasant would mention to me how extraordinary these kids were. They reminded me, in classic, solipsistic boomer fashion, of my own generation...
...Just as he did in this cycle, Edwards invested heavily in Iowa in 2004. But he didn't have the resources and hadn't spent the time there to fare well in New Hampshire, where he placed fourth. Edwards raised $1 million a day after his surprise second place in Iowa that year, largely because, with Howard Dean swooning, Edwards came across as that year's only fresh-faced agent for change. But Democrats are living in an altered universe this time: if the Iowa results tell us anything, it is that Obama, far more than Edwards...
...that took two days to beat. "I'm not sure I'm the best person to help you," I told the man. But he insisted, and so I was soon filling out the three-page form, which mixed statistics gathering (nationality, places I visited, number of nights I spent in hotels) with questions like "During your stay which features did you like most...
...farmer's wife in Zurkan, a remote village close to the Iranian border in northeastern Iraqi Kurdistan, Amina Khidir began performing the operation when her mother became too old to carry on. Her first patient was her own daughter. "I didn't feel nervous, because I had spent years watching how the cut was done," Khidir remembers. "And my daughter was a baby at the time, too small to understand what was happening. That's the best age to do it." Matter-of-factly, Khidir describes dealing with the aftermath of her work. She applies oak charcoal to reduce pain...