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Around the world, much is expected from ObamaLONDON - Here's all Barack Obama has to do to meet the world's expectations if he's elected U.S. president: More » |
In defeat, Clinton opens up, reaches out to womenWASHINGTON - This one's for the girls. That was Hillary Rodham Clinton's message as she ended her presidential bid last Saturday - a final, full-throated acknowledgment of what her pioneering quest had meant to women. More » |
To young voters, Obama's race an asset or non-issueCHICAGO - For young voters, Rosa Parks' refusal to sit at the back of a bus in Montgomery, Ala., in 1955 is schoolbook history. Even the racially charged 1992 riots in Los Angeles are a distant memory. More » |
Mormons mark 30 years of blacks in priesthoodSALT LAKE CITY - Thirty years have passed, but Heber G. Wolsey still cries when he recalls the day the Mormon church abandoned a policy that had kept black men out of the priesthood. More » |
Asian Americans' academic success hides unmet needsWith their high visibility on elite college campuses, Asian Americans have picked up a nickname that makes many uncomfortable: the "model minority." More » |
