If the grass-roots energy that fueled President Barack Obama's 2008
campaign proves hard to duplicate as he seeks re-election, so too could
the Internet-powered small donor base that helped him shatter all
fundraising records.
NEW YORK—It wasn’t the Mona Lisa by any stretch of the imagination. In
fact some may even call it an eyesore. That is how ugly this past Monday
night’s NCAA championship game was played.
Serena Williams grabbed her racket and got out on a tennis court
Tuesday, which she said was her "first day back" after a series of
health problems, including blood clots in her lung.
The rules for Libyan media were absolute: Don't print, broadcast or post
anything bad about leader Moammar Gadhafi. Libyan journalists who
crossed the line risked prison or death.
There was barely an hour left before the midnight padlocking of
government doors. In a Capitol basement meeting room, House Speaker John
Boehner was telling exhausted fellow Republicans that a deal to avert a
shutdown was nearly finished when an aide alerted him that staff had
completed the final details and the agreement was complete.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Cathie Black was the perfect choice to head
the city's 1.1 million-student school system because she was "a
superstar manager." But her resignation Thursday after three contentious months on the job
was the latest in a series of third-term setbacks for Bloomberg and a
defeat of his bid to hire a business-minded outsider like himself for a
top job.
