June 2008 archives
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June 9, 2008 by Cyrus Patell
Remembering Some Girls
Thirty years ago, the Rolling Stones released their landmark album Some Girls. For me, the album is indelibly associated with the death of a beloved teacher named Paul-Philippe Bolduc, who taught me French during my high school years at Trinity School on New York’s Upper West Side. I’ve written about that moment in my life [...]Archive
June 4, 2008 by Cyrus Patell
I Face This Challenge
You’ll notice that, at the bottom of the screenshot from MSNBC that accompanied last night’s post on Barack Obama, the words “Obama: I face this challenge with profound humility, and knowledge of my own limitations.” MSNBC showed these words and others from Obama speech as he was delivering it. Midway through the speech, my wife [...]Archive
June 4, 2008 by Cyrus Patell
Some Numbers (June 4, 2008)
Some numbers related to my three previous posts: Total Number of Delegates to the Democratic National Convention in August: 4,234Number of Pledged Delegates: 3,409Number of Superdelegates: 825Number of Delegates Needed to Clinch the Democratic Nomination: 2,118Number of Delegates Allocated to Barack Obama: 2,156 (1,762 pledged, 394 super)Number of Delegates Allocated to Hillary Clinton: 1,923 (1,636, [...]Archive
June 3, 2008 by Cyrus Patell
Barack Obama, Presumptive Nominee
Watching Barack Obama become the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party tonight, I am reminded of my first visit to Washington DC. It was the summer of 1974, and it was part of a family trip that had already taken us to South Carolina to visit cousins on my mother’s side and to Orlando, Florida, [...]Archive
June 1, 2008 by Cyrus Patell
