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In recession, one road led back home

Her parents redecorated her bedroom soon after she left for college, as sure as everyone else in this town that Melissa Meyer would not be moving back. They took down the photos of Melissa meeting the Dalai Lama and laughing alongside Joe Biden, placing ...

From ELI SASLOW, The Washington Post,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Dalai Lama,  Joe Biden,  U.S. Senate,  George Washington University

In hard times all roads lead home

Melissa had always been too big for this town, her father liked to say. She was editor of the school newspaper, an intern in the U.S. Senate and the only student from Sentinel High School's class of 2005 to attend college on the East Coast. On her rare ...

From ELI SASLOW, The Washington Post,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  George Washington University

A Republican on every ballot

"Are we serving the chocolate-chip again?" Riley says. Little has changed at the headquarters for decades, which is precisely Riley's dilemma. The 37-year-old lawyer accepted the unpaid position of county party chairman in 2006 -- "maybe the worst job ...

From ELI SASLOW, The Washington Post,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Barack Obama

Peace Prize acrimony: Once again, Obama evokes passionate response

charisma had trumped results. Some called it a miracle; others called it a joke. Some believed Obama had earned the prize by uniting the country, rewriting black history and redeeming America to the world; others said Obama had earned -- and ...

From ELI SASLOW THE WASHINGTON POST, Salt Lake Tribune,  10 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party,  William Kristol,  Martin Luther King, Jr.,  Nelson Mandela

Reactions Similar Only in Their Intensity

The new winner of the Nobel Peace Prize walked out of his house just after 11 a.m., dressed handsomely in a dark suit and a classic blue tie. He descended a marble staircase into a manicured garden, flowers in full bloom, and stepped up to a podium on a ...

From ELI SASLOW, The Washington Post,  10 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party,  William Kristol,  Al Gore,  Martin Luther King, Jr.

Obama's win A War of words

ultimate endorsement of a great president; others called it evidence that, once again, charisma had trumped results. Some called it a miracle; others called it a joke. Some believed Obama had earned the prize by uniting the country, rewriting black ...

From ELI SASLOW THE WASHINGTON POST, Salt Lake Tribune,  10 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party,  William Kristol,  White House,  Theodore Roosevelt

With White House Rally, Antiwar Protesters Hope to Spark Groundswell

The protesters convened for a final planning meeting, already triumphant, convinced that nine months of preparation was about to pay off. Antiwar organizers who had come to Washington from 27 states exchanged hugs inside a Columbia Heights convention ...

From ELI SASLOW, The Washington Post,  7 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House

For Protesters, Cause Not Lost

The protesters convened for a final planning meeting, already triumphant, convinced that nine months of preparation was about to pay off. Antiwar organizers who had come to Washington from 27 states exchanged hugs inside a Columbia Heights convention ...

From ELI SASLOW, The Washington Post,  6 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House

Teaching 9/11 to Teenagers Too Young to Remember

VINCENNES, Ind. The students filed into their social studies class just after lunch and slumped into desks where they had learned about the Civil War, Lewis and Clark, and the bombing of Pearl Harbor. On this day, teacher Michael Hutchison said, the ...

From ELI SASLOW, The Washington Post,  11 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  The Pentagon,  Anthony Gardner

9/11 a Distant Memory for Teens

VINCENNES, Ind. The students filed into their social studies class just after lunch and slumped into desks where they had learned about the Civil War, Lewis and Clark, and the bombing of Pearl Harbor. On this day, teacher Michael Hutchison said, the ...

From ELI SASLOW, The Washington Post,  10 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Anthony Gardner

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