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| Martin Luther King didn't have experience to lead...
Kennedy didn't have experience to lead...
Susan B. Anthony...
Nelson Mandella...
Rosa Parks...
Gandhi...
Anne Frank...
and everyone else who has had a hand in molding the freedoms we have and take for granted today...
no one truly has experience to deal with the world today...
they just need "desire, strength, courage ability, and passion" to change...
and to stand for something even when people say it's not possible...
- will.i.am | | |
| Come on Senate...
ttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/washington/31cnd-fiscal.html?hp
by the time you pass the stimulus plan, we're going to be out of recession | | |
| the best email of my life:
Hello,
Early this year I went through some of the exams to check the grading. I found that for one of the problems, the grader had misinterpreted part of the solution. Following this, we went through a full regrade of the finals. Overall the changes weren't all that big (especially given that the problem was in one of the problems of the final, so a maximum of ~6 points in the overall grade).
You are getting this message because in your particular case the change, after readjusting the curve, led to an upward change in your grade by one level. Since these changes need to be done manually, it will probably take a few weeks for them to be visible on your transcript.
Best regards,
G. Brooijmans
THANK YOU JESUS
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| http://www.thestar.com/News/article/292689
She made Clinton teary, then voted for Obama
Woman who posed question that prompted senator to show emotion found more inspiration elsewhere
PORTSMOUTH, N.H.–It's been said that irony doesn't exist in America, but the New Hampshire primary may have proved otherwise.
The emotional moment credited by some with sparking Hillary Clinton's resurgence apparently wasn't enough to sway the woman who provoked it.
Freelance photographer Marianne Pernold-Young, whose question at a coffee klatch brought a lump to the New York senator's throat, says she made up her mind in the voting booth on whom to support as the Democrat presidential nominee.
"I voted for (Illinois Senator Barack) Obama," Pernold-Young told the Star, chuckling. "He really moved me. Hillary did, too, but he was less scripted. He ad-libbed and gave answers to questions that I could understand."
At a roundtable with undecided voters at the Café Espresso in Portsmouth, N.H., on Monday, Pernold-Young asked Clinton how she keeps going in the gruelling campaign. Clinton answered, tears welling in her eyes and her voice catching in her throat.
The snippet, played endlessly on television, is credited with warming Clinton's occasionally frosty political persona.
"It certainly looks that way, doesn't it? Three of my best friends called (on Tuesday) and said they switched from Obama to Hillary because they saw a human side they'd never seen before," said Pernold-Young, 64.
Clinton skeptics and her Republican opponents – whose loathing for the two-term senator and her husband, former president Bill Clinton, is apparently bottomless – openly questioned the sincerity of her answer at Café Espresso.
Some conservative pundits even went so far as to suggest the whole affair was staged.
Hogwash, said Pernold-Young, who was taken aback by Clinton's strong response.
"I was just asking a question as a girlfriend, woman to woman, out of genuine concern for her health and fortitude," she said.
What many voters didn't see is that immediately after her display of emotion, Clinton segued into a flinty attack on Obama and reverted back to talking points.
That's at least partly why Pernold-Young, who perfectly fits the profile of the voters who carried Clinton to a slim victory despite apocalyptic poll numbers days before the primary, cast her vote elsewhere. At the same time, Pernold-Young thinks this week's vote has righted Clinton's flagging campaign.
"Women are all over-achievers and we never get any credit ... I hope this has helped her," she said.
Not that Pernold-Young has received any credit from Clinton's organizers. "I keep hoping to get a call from Hillary. Maybe she'll invite me to another coffee party." | | |
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