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2008-10-23 6:23 PM conferences and clippings Read/Post Comments (0) |
The BYM and I were in Raleigh earlier this week for a conference. On our last day there, we walked to the Duck & Dumpling for lunch at the same time an Obama rally was taking place at a park across the street. We passed a pub along the way that had this sign out front:
In this morning's New York Times, there's a column by Gail Collins called Confessions of a Phone Solicitor. It ends with this kicker: "For John McCain, the best question now is not whether he’s going to lose, but what kind of a country he’d wind up with if he won after a campaign even a telemarketer can’t love." In Tuesday's Times, Maureen Dowd wrote about Colin Powell's choice to endorse Obama: He told Tom Brokaw that he was troubled by what other Republicans, not McCain, had said: “ ‘Well, you know that Mr. Obama is a Muslim.’ Well, the correct answer is, he is not a Muslim. He’s a Christian. He’s always been a Christian. But the really right answer is, what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer’s no. That’s not America. Is something wrong with some 7-year-old Muslim-American kid believing that he or she could be president?” In today's obituaries, William Grimes's tribute to English novelist Peter Vansittart ended with these paragraphs:
And, from Sunday's paper, at the end of Laura Winters's essay on film director Philippe Claudel:
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