Most respondents in a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released yesterday said that President Obama’s “beer summit’’ last week was a good idea, although most thought he “acted stupidly’’ with his initial remarks on the Cambridge controversy.
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Political Notebook
Jackson calls Gates arrest controversy a teachable moment
Most respondents in a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released yesterday said that President Obama’s “beer summit’’ last week was a good idea, although most thought he “acted stupidly’’ with his initial remarks on the Cambridge controversy.
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The Rev. Jesse Jackson said yesterday that he doesn’t want the controversy over the arrest of Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. to be a missed opportunity for a national teachable moment. (Full article: 670 words)
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