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• Campaign in Poetry, Govern in Prose

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  Matt Frei for BBC News on this first anniversary of the historic election: The old saying that you campaign in poetry and govern in prose was only partially true for Obama. By late summer of 2008, he had already switched to prose. The cautious and calculating pragmatist who now runs this country [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 12:20pm EST
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• Maine Repeals Gays as Human; Public School Parent Protests Gays as Animals

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  Dan Delong of Carlinville, Ill., at teacher at Southwestern High School in the nearby town of Piasa, will face a school board hearing November 2, after being suspended from teaching. A parent of one unidentified student thought the optional reading assignment was inappropriate for her child . . . When this [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:54am EST
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• See Google This Morning and Smile!

  Then call any handy family members over to share the smile. I just did. UPDATE: See CSM’s favorite video clips from the 40-year run. And here’s one of mine, as a sax lover: Posted in Arts, Creative Class, Early Childhood Issues, Family Values, Health, home, Humor, learning, Literacy, Movies/TV, Nature-nurture, Parent Involvement, [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 8:36am EST
  by JJ