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Fooled by Obama
Smart women know that if a guy is sending mixed signals — promising to call but never getting around to it, making dates and then canceling, professing warm feelings but not introducing you to his friends — it can mean only one thing: He's...Tags: Vermont, Jimmy Carter, Minority Groups, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers
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University of Chicago: Class of 2009
The Swampby Mark Silva "Obama eats here,'' read the printed words on the backs of the T-shirts at the University Market on South 57th Street in Chicago, home of the Arrabiata, capocolla, pepperoni, soppressata and provolone on a roll that will......Tags: Science, Colleges and Universities, Health, Science and Technology, Barack Obama
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Bill Ayers, Obama: Parting ways on war
The Swampby Mark Silva Our friend and colleague Clarence Page notes that President Barack Obama has lost at least one old friend on one issue: Chicago's Bill Ayers, on the escalation of the war in Afghanistan. Obama was criticized for "palin'......Tags: Vietnam, White House, Sarah Palin, Samuel Beckett, Afghanistan
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Bill Ayers dumps Obama
Page's PageTo hear the right-wing crowd, you would think Bill Ayers and President Barack Obama were joined at the hip. Who could forget Sarah Palin's charge that Obama was "palin' around with terrorists"? Well, goodbye to all that. The 1960s Weather...... -
Meghan Daum: The State of Student Activism
THE EVENTS at Columbia University on Oct. 4, in which about a dozen students stormed a stage where the founder of an anti-illegal immigration group was speaking, didn't exactly resemble those of April 1968. There were no arrests, no soundtrack by the...Tags: Columbia University, Heads of State, Colleges and Universities, Demonstration, National Government
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Alcatraz: Getting rattled on 'the Rock'
Alcatraz Island, Calif. — EACH day at sundown, when the last tour boat departs this desolate, wind-swept outpost, one lonesome soul is left behind. He's the night watchman of Alcatraz. Guided by the beam of his flashlight, Gregory Johnson inches...Tags: Alfred Hitchcock, Forehead, Movies, Suicide, Crime, Law and Justice
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Excerpts from Bill Ayers' book update
Chicago TribuneExcerpts from the new afterword in the re-issue of William Ayers' 2001 memoir, "Fugitive Days," which recounts his days with the radical 1960s group Weather Underground: "I said that I regretted many things -- for example, in the political movement, I...Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., Crimes, Death, Terrorism, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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'Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist,' by Bill Ayers
Fugitive Days
Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist
Bill Ayers
With a New Afterword
by the Author
Beacon Press: 316 pp., $15 paper
With time running out on his bid for the White House, John McCain used the final presidential debate to play his Bill Ayers...Tags: White House, Guerrilla Activity, Terrorism, Activism, Vietnam War (1955-1975)
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McCain's debatable strategy
John McCain faced a hard choice Wednesday evening: He could conduct his final debate with Barack Obama on the high plane of principle and risk losing the election, or he could engage in personal acrimony and risk destroying his argument that, for him,...Tags: Elections, Government, Executive Branch, John McCain, Dan Quayle
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The Chicago Seven trial and the 1968 Democratic National Convention
Chicago TribuneEverybody knew it would be interesting, the trial of eight people charged with conspiring to incite the riots that erupted during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. How could it not be, with a cast of characters that included hippie...Tags: Trials, Democratic Convention (1968), Riots, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System
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Is McCain too old? Is Obama too young?
Today's question: Is Barack Obama too young? Is John McCain too old? What major shortcomings must each candidate address? Click here to read previous installments from this week's Dust-Up. "John McCain (R)" — that's his problem Point: Megan McArdle We'...Tags: Elections, White House, Illinois, World War II (1939-1945), Barack Obama
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Senator helped fund organization that rejects 'racist' Israel's existence
South Florida Sun-SentinelJERUSALEM - The board of a nonprofit organization on which Sen. Barack Obama served as a paid director alongside a confessed domestic terrorist granted funding to a controversial Arab group that mourns the establishment of Israel as a "catastrophe" and...Tags: Palestinian Liberation Organization, Coup d'Etat, Defense, University of Chicago, Crime, Law and Justice
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