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(CNN) -- If Barack Obama could make three wishes, he would probably ask for the crisis in Syria to go away. That would help him receive another wish: Getting reelected as president of the United States. 

Unfortunately for Obama, and tragically for the people in Syria, history has brought the American presidential campaign and the Syrian revolution to the same pages of the calendar. That means Obama will do whatever he can, for as long as he can, to keep the carnage in Syria from interfering with his reelection plan. 

That means the killings in Syria could go on longer than if the uprising had erupted during a nonelection year. 

Anyone who doubts that electoral considerations have become a major factor in U.S. foreign policy should look to Obama's own words from a few months ago. Obama did not realize his microphone was on during a meeting in Seoul with then-Russian President Dimitry Medvedev, so he leaned in close and whispered, "This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility." In this instance, Obama was referring to the contentious issue of missile defense. 

It's not uncommon for presidents to worry about reelection while charting foreign policy. In Robert Caro's new biography of President Lyndon B. Johnson, "The Passage of Power," he describes how Johnson made decisions about Vietnam with an eye towards the elections. Caro concluded that "the steps he took had, as their unifying principle, an objective dictated largely by domestic â€” indeed, personal â€” political concerns." 
1. What would Obama's first wish be?
2. And the second?
3. Who did Obama meet with?
4. What was his job?
5. Does he still have it?
6. Where did they meet?
7. How many more elections did Obama have?
8. What was he referring to?
9. Was that debatable?
10. Who wrote a biography?
11. About whom?
12. Titled what?
13. What did Johnson decide about?
14. Was he concerned about voting?
15. Is there a war in Syria?
16. When were Obama's comments?
17. Did he know his mike was hot?

Numbered answers:
1. the crisis in Syria to go away
2. Getting reelected as president of the United States
3. Dimitry Medvedev,
4. Russian President
5. no
6. Seoul
7. one
8. missile defense
9. Yes
10. Robert Caro
11. Lyndon B. Johnson
12. The Passage of Power
13. Vietnam
14. yes
15. Yes
16. a few months ago
17. no


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Mahātmā Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (; ; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahātmā (Sanskrit: "high-souled", "venerable")—applied to him first in 1914 in South Africa—is now used worldwide. In India, he is also called Bapu ji (Gujarati: endearment for "father", "papa") and Gandhi ji. He is unofficially called the "Father of the Nation" 

Born and raised in a Hindu merchant caste family in coastal Gujarat, western India, and trained in law at the Inner Temple, London, Gandhi first employed nonviolent civil disobedience as an expatriate lawyer in South Africa, in the resident Indian community's struggle for civil rights. After his return to India in 1915, he set about organising peasants, farmers, and urban labourers to protest against excessive land-tax and discrimination. Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for various social causes and for achieving "Swaraj" or self-rule. 

Gandhi famously led Indians in challenging the British-imposed salt tax with the Dandi Salt March in 1930, and later in calling for the British to "Quit India" in 1942. He was imprisoned for many years, upon many occasions, in both South Africa and India. He lived modestly in a self-sufficient residential community and wore the traditional Indian "dhoti" and shawl, woven with yarn hand-spun on a "charkha". He ate simple vegetarian food, and also undertook long fasts as a means of both self-purification and political protest.
1. Who was Mahātmā Gandhi?
2. Where was he born?
3. What part of India is that?

Numbered answers:
1. the leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule
2. coastal Gujarat
3. western India


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CHAPTER III 

The brig sailed on a Monday morning in spring; but Joanna did not witness its departure. She could not bear the sight that she had been the means of bringing about. Knowing this, her husband told her overnight that they were to sail some time before noon next day hence when, awakening at five the next morning, she heard them bustling about downstairs, she did not hasten to descend, but lay trying to nerve herself for the parting, imagining they would leave about nine, as her husband had done on his previous voyage. When she did descend she beheld words chalked upon the sloping face of the bureau; but no husband or sons. In the hastily-scrawled lines Shadrach said they had gone off thus not to pain her by a leave-taking; and the sons had chalked under his words: 'Good- bye, mother!' 

She rushed to the quay, and looked down the harbour towards the blue rim of the sea, but she could only see the masts and bulging sails of the _Joanna_; no human figures. ''Tis I have sent them!' she said wildly, and burst into tears. In the house the chalked 'Good-bye' nearly broke her heart. But when she had re-entered the front room, and looked across at Emily's, a gleam of triumph lit her thin face at her anticipated release from the thraldom of subservience. 

To do Emily Lester justice, her assumption of superiority was mainly a figment of Joanna's brain. That the circumstances of the merchant's wife were more luxurious than Joanna's, the former could not conceal; though whenever the two met, which was not very often now, Emily endeavoured to subdue the difference by every means in her power. 
1. Did Jane see the departure?
2. What was departing?
3. Was the brig on water?
4. Who was leaving?
5. When did she awake?
6. Did she get up when she awoke?
7. Why?
8. Did she expect to see them before they left?
9. Was she wrong?
10. What did she see instead?
11. Who wrote them?
12. What did they say?
13. Was she happy or sad about this?
14. Who was Emily?
15. Why was she triumphant?
16. What was Emily's last name?
17. Did Joanna feel inferior?
18. To whom?
19. What it reality?
20. What type of wife was Emily?


Numbered answers:
1. no
2. The brig
3. yes
4. the husband or sons
5. five in the morning
6. no
7. her nerves
8. yes
9. yes
10. words chalked
11. the sons
12. 'Good- bye, mother!'
13. sad
14. her neighbor
15. from anticipation
16. Lester
17. yes
18. Emily Lester
19. no
20. a merchant's wife