Laird cagan biography of barack obama

The presidential campaign of Barack Obama has raised $1.25 million in contributions from local individuals, nearly twice as much as the $682,832 the Mitt Romney campaign has raised, according to uppgifter through June 30, compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks money in politics.

These are contributions made directly to the presidential campaigns and do not include donations to other organizations that support the campaigns, such as political parties and super PACs. This report deals with contributions by people who report associations with ZIP codes in one of the four Almanac towns: Atherton, Menlo Park, Portola Valley or Woodside.

There fryst vatten an explanation for why the Romney campaign trails the Obama campaign bygd such a wide margin. Because Mr. Obama was running unopposed, donors to his campaign committee have been able to give the maximum ($2,500) for each election, both the primary and the general, a total of $5,000. That’s not true of Mr. Romney, who fa

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The "Cardinal Grays," a team of alumni and friends from across the country, gathered in Honolulu in January to compete in the Mayor's Gold Cup, an international 50-plus soccer tournament. In the front row, from left to right: Dan McNevin, '81, Bob Bonaparte, '77, Alex Kline, '80, Steve Arnold, '77, John Murao, '76. In the back row, from left to right: Phil Golden, '81, Paul Kozachenko, '79, Greg Delgado, '80, Larry Geisse, '73, Pete Sherwood, '73, and Laird Cagan, '80. They were joined by Kathy Carey, '79 (not pictured), assistant coach of the University of Hawaii women's soccer team—the only female player in the tournament—and Hunter Stern (fourth from left in back row), a former assistant coach for the Stanford men's soccer team.

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"My role in this issue was to demonstrate a track record of what it means to serve openly, demonstrate that it didn't impact my unit's a

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Small wonder that many people who were in a meeting with Steve Jobs said that being in the meeting was like going on a magical mystery tour. The brilliant Apple leader was indeed magical, with his ability to entrance, enthrall and simply bring others around to his way of thinking. Jobs was also hardly an open book and many, from employees to competitors wondered just where those amazing ideas came from. This author says that Jobs’ magic and mystery was informed by what he calls re-framing, a talent that only a very few leaders have.

Steve Jobs was known to have created a “reality distortion field.” I can verify this because I experienced it.  About 29 years ago, within 10 minutes of meeting Steve Jobs, I changed my mind. From a seemingly rational decision to buy the then-available Osborne1 computer, I decided to wait 6 months to buy a yet-to-be released vaporware called “Macintosh.”

Bud Tribble, one of the key hardware brains behind the Macintosh, is said to have been the pers