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...Obama can turn a feel-good moment into improbable changes in our discourse, he might be helped by something that helped him pull off an improbable win: the Internet. It's true that new media have helped polarize politics by creating echo chambers of agreement. But the kind of social media the Obama campaign used, like Facebook, also help people broaden their spheres and see how they are connected with people who are different from them. And they're popular among the same young people who are turned off by the old political dualisms and categories...
...That yanks Notorious out of the urban-grit category and into the genre of the doomed star cut down by fame. Such a movie needs a star turn, and it gets one from Woolard, who has the stolidity and solidity, and nearly the size, of the Bamiyan Buddhas. He's one of those music performers turned actors who takes instantly to being at the center of a movie; he's both potent and at ease. Like Wallace, Woolard, whose rap handle is Gravy, has been the victim of gunfire. And last weekend, at a Greensboro, N.C., theater where he attended...
...Episcopal Church, where Dallas pastor Bishop T.D. Jakes offered a warning as well as a blessing: "You cannot change what you will not confront," he said. "This is a moment of confrontation in this country ... The problems are mighty and the solutions are not simple, and everywhere you turn there will be a critic waiting to attack every decision that you make. But you are all fired up, sir, and you are ready to go. And this nation goes with you. God goes with you." (See pictures of how Barack Obama prepared his speech...
...remember these timeless words. With hope and virtue, let us brave once more the icy currents, and endure what storms may come. Let it be said by our children's children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations...
...Taiwanese employment website. Especially hard-hit is the Hsinchu Science and Industrial Park, Taiwan's version of Silicon Valley, where more than 90% of the world's notebook computers, motherboards and cable modems, to name a few leading products, are made. It's also where most U.S. companies turn to subcontract manufacturing of their high-tech goods. (See the worst business deals...