2008 Woodie Awards
A Pennsylvania voter drive brought actors Rachael Leigh Cook and Mehcad Brooks to WCU, last Monday, as the final week of voter registration in Pennsylvania ends today. The Obama-Biden sponsored event, "Eight Days for '08," visited four Greater Philadelphia-area universities throughout the day last Monday.
More than 70 million people tuned in Thursday night to watch Gov. Sarah Palin and Sen. Joe Biden face off in the 2008 Vice Presidential debate-- nearly 20 million more than the first Presidential debate Sept. 26. Biden was declared the winner according to 46 percent of 473 uncommitted voters in a CBS and Knowledge Networks survey.
PHILADELPHIA-Bruce Springsteen played the first of several acoustic sets as part of Rock The Vote 2008, Saturday at the Ben Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia in an effort to increase voter registration across the country. Over 35,000 Springsteen fans and Barack Obama supporters lined the Parkway between 20th and 24th street of Philadelphia for the free event.
In the United States, one in six women will be the victim of sexual assault; out of that group, college age women are four times more likely to be victims of sexual assault. These statistics may seem shocking, but according to the Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network (RAINN), they are entirely true.
JERUSALEM- Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni took a major step early Thursday toward becoming the nation's second female prime minister after closer-than-expected results showed her narrowly winning election to lead the government's ruling party. As Kadima Party leaders counted the official votes, Livni, a popular, diplomacy-first advocate, predicted a narrow victory over Shaul Mofaz, a more politically uncompromising former defense minister.
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