.....Obama, by contrast, radiates the new. He doesn't just talk about change; he looks like change. His person and his platform are virtually indistinguishable. Obama, like Tiger Woods and Angelina Jolie, has one of those faces that seem beamed from a postracial future, when everyone will have a permanent, noncarcinogenic tan. He has small kids and a low BMI. His voice rumbles with authority, but his ears stick out like Opie Taylor's. His campaign is crawling with cool young people, and the candidate fits right in. We've yet to see Obama flustered or harried; instead, he gives off the enigmatic Zen confidence of the guy who is picked first for every game......Obama is tapping into a broad audience of energized young voters hungry for change, according to a new TIME poll of under-30 Americans. Nearly three-quarters of the respondents said they feel the country is headed down the wrong track, with majorities expressing worries about jobs, affordable health care and the war in Iraq. Their interest in the election exceeds their interest in celebrity news or sports - 7 of 10 said they are paying attention to the race. Obama is the only candidate in either party who is viewed favorably by a majority of young people, and he has half again as much support as his nearest competitor, Democrat or Republican.....
The New York Post endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination Wednesday, calling him an "untried candidate" but a preferable alternative to the newspaper's home state senator, Hillary Rodham Clinton. Clinton and her husband, the former president, "stand for deja vu all over again — a return to the opportunistic, scandal-scarred, morally muddled years of the almost infinitely self-indulgent Clinton co-presidency," the paper wrote. "Does America really want to go through all that once again? It will — if Senator Clinton becomes president."
A Kenyan opposition MP was shot dead by a policeman on Thursday, raising fears of a fresh surge in post-election violence as negotiators for the country's feuding leaders met for the first time. The incident followed the killing of another opposition lawmaker on Tuesday which sparked violent unrest in flashpoint western regions and Nairobi slums. Opposition leader Raila Odinga, who insists President Mwai Kibaki cheated him of victory in December's presidential elections, said the killings were "part of a plot" to reduce his Orange Democratic Movement's (ODM) majority in parliament. The lawmaker killed Thursday was identified as David Kiumtai Too. A police commander said he was killed by a traffic policeman in a suburb of Eldoret in western Kenya, but added that the motive did not appear political."He was with a girl who is a police officer. He was shot by another policeman believed to be her boyfriend," the commander said.
Cameroon striker Samuel Eto'o scored twice to help his side beat Sudan 3-0 and reach the African Nations Cup quarter-finals on Wednesday, while his coach Otto Pfister fumed over organisation at the tournament. Eto'o's first goal, a 27th-minute penalty, made him the highest scorer in the tournament's history with 15 goals.
Senator Obama was endorsed by Governor Kathleen Sebelius today in El Dorado, Kansas. Governor Sebelius stated...I am especially pleased to announce my enthusiastic endorsement of Senator Barack Obama for President of the United States - because Barack Obama represents exactly the kind of change Kansans can believe in. His candidacy offers the heartland values instilled by his mother and grandparents - all three native Kansans. Values of believing in…
The Zimbabwean government unveiled plans on Tuesday to open a network of state-run "people's shops" that will offer basic goods at rock bottom prices in the run-up to elections in March. But economists warned that the scheme would do nothing to improve the country's economic crisis and might even make it worse in the long term. With unemployment running at around 80 percent, many Zimbabweans have been struggling to afford staples such as cooking oil and sugar from private stores. But Industry Minister Obert Mpofu said the new stores, modelled on similar ventures in Brazil and Angola, would ensure that no one went without.
Poorer nations need more support to retrieve billions of dollars of stolen assets spirited away to global financial havens, officials at a United Nations anti-corruption conference in Bali said on Tuesday, January 29, 2008. The task had been made tougher by the growing complexity of the world's financial system and the emergence of new financial centres prepared to take shady funds, they said. "This difficulty has been compounded by systems of high technology, where people can conduct banking through hot messaging systems, through their mobile phones or through the Internet," Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda told a ministerial discussion on asset recovery on the sidelines of the conference, which is being attended by more than 100 countries.
"Unfortunately, the United Nations and its agencies have become impotent as they have come to be controlled by western capitals such as Washington DC, who have held the United Nations hostage by withholding their contributions," ......Therefore, the priority in 2008 would be for the United Nations and its agencies to live up to their original mandate, which was to bring all nations of the world together to work for peace and development, based on the principles of justice, human dignity and the well-being of all people......"
I've lost 20 pounds now in two years. Even better, I've improved my body fat by six percentage points. I'm probably the fittest I've been in a decade. And I couldn't have done it without you. You see, each year at this time, I put myself through a foolish, humiliating exercise... I tell you what I want to accomplish in the New Year. I do this because it keeps me honest with myself. And I do it because I've figured out a way that works – for me at least – to achieve my goals. I thought you'd like to know about it and maybe use it to help you achieve your goals. Here's what I do: I make a simple list. At the beginning of each year, I physically write down one goal in each of four categories. The goals have to be both significant, yet specific. The biggest thing setting these four goals does for me is focuses my energies for the year. Instead of pursuing all kinds of different things, I decide in advance what's important to focus on for the next 12 months. It might sound hokey – I thought it did at first. But it actually works for me...
.....Obama, by contrast, radiates the new. He doesn't just talk about change; he looks like change. His person and his platform are virtually indistinguishable. Obama, like Tiger Woods and Angelina Jolie, has one of those faces that seem beamed from a postracial future, when everyone will have a permanent, noncarcinogenic tan. He has small kids and a low BMI. His voice rumbles with authority, but his ears stick out like Opie Taylor's. His campaign is crawling with cool young people, and the candidate fits right in. We've yet to see Obama flustered or harried; instead, he gives off the enigmatic Zen confidence of the guy who is picked first for every game......Obama is tapping into a broad audience of energized young voters hungry for change, according to a new TIME poll of under-30 Americans. Nearly three-quarters of the respondents said they feel the country is headed down the wrong track, with majorities expressing worries about jobs, affordable health care and the war in Iraq. Their interest in the election exceeds their interest in celebrity news or sports - 7 of 10 said they are paying attention to the race. Obama is the only candidate in either party who is viewed favorably by a majority of young people, and he has half again as much support as his nearest competitor, Democrat or Republican.....
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