Coffee, Pie and a Side of Politics
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MANCHESTER, N.H. Elaine Boule met Sen. Barack Obama when he came through the Red Arrow diner on a campaign stop a few weeks back.
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"Now that the country is awash in Reagan nostalgia, some observers are predicting that you will enter politics. Would you like to be president of the United States?"  "I would be unelectable. I'm an atheist. As we all know, that is something people won't accept."  "What would you do if Senator Kerry asked you to be his vice president?"  "I would question his sanity."  "Do you ever go to church?"  "No. I visit my wife's sangha."  "So you sometimes practice Buddhism?"  "I don't claim anything. But my sympathies would be in that direction. I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion."  So lets get this straight.  He's an a ...
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A look at the people who are behind the scenes of Flavours.
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MILWAUKEE -- It was the morning of the day after the election, and the results still weren&#39;t clear, but one thing was certain, it takes a special kind of individual to want to be in this pressure cooker, what with the scrutiny, the second guessing, the
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From camels to Clinton to Kaddafi to Iraq. A constituency leader who helped Tony Blair rise to power revisits the prime minister's early days in politics.
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There are two Howard Schultzes. One loves the smaller, more personal chain that Starbucks once was. The other understands Wall Streetsâ needs.
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An election campaign parades the political divide in the community. Yesterday, amid the extraordinary uncertainty about whether Australians had been taken hostage in Iraq, we saw the glue that unites the two sides of politics.
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It's supposed to be a golden rule from the schoolyard to the corporate suite and beyond: truth or consequences. But when it comes to politics, things are different.
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The tears over coffee that many commentators believe turned the New Hampshire tide in Hillary Clinton's favour
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How do you compete with mom, flag, and apple pie?That's the American version of the question facing France's conservatives, now that Segolene Royal has emerged as the Socialist Party's candidate for president ...Comment
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Satellites and telephone wires bring the battle for the White House to an Internet cafe 7,200 miles away in Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia, where Girma Hagos goes for his daily dose of U.S. election news.
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Sara Peattie creates the political specters that loom over antiwar demonstrations.
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Sure, the presidential candidates have their talking points on taxes, their policies on poverty, their white papers on war. But look beyond those top-tier issues and voters can find the eclectic ideas that reflect candidates' particular passions, their attention to the arcane, sometimes their outsized expectations.
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One of my favorite philosophers, Yogi Berra, once said you can observe a lot by just watching. Between now and Election Day there is some important polling information to watch for to track how the race between
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Jack Connors and I are sitting on our usual bench at Castle Island. Lunch is the usual, too: couple of hot dogs each, mustard and relish, and we split an order of onion rings, though neither of us needs them. We talk about the governor&#146;s race. We gossip about what&#146;s happening downtown and at the Globe. We talk about how ...
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To: POLITICAL EDITORS  Contact: Marti Pupillo of International Dairy Foods Association, +1-202-220-3535   WASHINGTON, Feb.
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Lose the brainy Washington-speak. Expand the playing field to states President Bush captured. Baby-sit for moms who want to get involved in politics. Democratic activists, gathering for the first time after last month's election losses, offered plenty of ideas for how the party can get back to its winning ways.