For a decade, she says, she "approached hundreds of people in airports, shops, markets, cafes, restaurants, bars, hospitals, parks, galleries, libraries, museums, buses, trains, planes and ships.
As my colleagues reported, tens of thousands of people from across the country streamed onto the National Mall on Saturday for a daylong commemoration of the approaching 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
A second installation, on loan from the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, R.I., is a giant illustrated timeline of tennis history, built on the theme of the sport in wartime (an acknowledgement, suitably oblique, to the approaching 10th anniversary of 9/11).
But the fast approaching 30th birthday of the 1988 act could – and should – be a trigger for us all to start thinking now.
"There's a massive pro-change vote". Altogether, something approaching two-thirds of the electorate said it wanted to put an end to business as usual.
Since she has been in leadership, she's raised a reported $714 million — approaching three-quarters of a billion dollars for Democrats.
The approaching 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre means control will continue to be tight.The party appears to believe that it can encourage the expansion of NGOs without relaxing its political grip.
STYLE The Possessed column last Sunday, about the rapidly approaching 40th birthday of the singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright, on July 22, referred incorrectly to another well-known singer-songwriter, Leonard Cohen.
