A Brand New Game
Professional athletes spend their lives honing their skills to pit them against others during competition. Strenuous practices, strict diets, and arduous workout regimens are designed to ensure peak performance. Sadly,...
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Can Detroit Be Saved?
Detroit is known by many names: The D, Motor City, and Motown, among others. But this once sprawling metropolis of nearly 2 million has over the past few decades become more synonymous with poverty, crime, unemployment, and urban blight.
Obama on the Record: News Conference on the Economy
THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody. Please have a seat. Good evening. Before I take questions from the correspondents I want to give everyone who’s watching tonight an update on the steps...
Transcript of John McCain’s Speech
Transcript of Sen. John McCain’s acceptance speech, as prepared for delivery. Thank you all very much. Tonight, I have a privilege given few Americans – – the privilege of accepting...
A Perfect Union — Barack Obama's Speech
Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched America's improbable experiment in democracy. Farmers and scholars; statesmen and patriots who had traveled across an ocean to escape tyranny and persecution finally made real their declaration of independence at a Philadelphia convention that lasted through the spring of 1787.