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So I had some extra time on my hands last week and somehow managed to be volunteered for calling constituents and persuade them to vote for Senator O. On an uneventfully Thursday evening, I sat in our local Democrat office with a cell phone and pages of registered voters. Most were registered Democrats and were just receiving a friendly reminder call. The others were undecided (a few Republicans and Independents), and with 2 weeks left to go for elections, really needed one last wake up call!

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(Written by Neal Schuett, reprinted from our local paper- Daily Iowan)

My former Islamic-studies professor at the UI was born in Tehran. He was a California transplant in Iowa City after getting admitted into the Writers' Workshop. Based on what he learned in school in California, the "flyover states" - such as Iowa - were nothing but fields, livestock, and hicks. When the tragic events of 9/11 happened, he was worried about backlash. He had heard negative stories from some of his friend… Continue