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...These accomplishments, along with his reputation as a war hero, will surround McCain’s name in the history books while the mistakes and failures of his latest presidential run will be reduced to footnotes, if not completely forgotten...
...voter. “We wanted to make historical conversation between past and present,” says Andres Castro Samayoa ’10, the student curator of the exhibit. The historical photographs focus on the movement’s most iconic events. In one photograph, women surround a reinforced truck holding a replica of the Liberty Bell. The bell’s clapper has been fixed, a caption explains, so that the bell (and liberty) can only ring when women can vote. Suffragists drove the bell to every county in Pennsylvania, about 4,000 miles in total. Such...
...viewed through the eyes of the insane, especially not the locked-up, straight-jacketed kind that Big Nurse just wants to subdue. But the mentally ill are products of society too; they are influenced by culture and they carry the same fears and fascinations as the sane minds that surround them. Craziness may be more normal than we think...
...Mismatched office chairs and handmade signs proclaiming “Hockey Moms for Obama” litter the small Concord Democratic campaign headquarters. In the back room, a man is performing the thankless, tedious task of shredding voter information. Four-foot-high garbage bags filled with shredded paper surround...
Former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack said he expects that Obama, a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, would continue to surround himself with talented academic figures should he win the election...