Meanwhile, the opposition deserves credit for attracting young and urban voters of all races with an inclusive message.

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But the divisions between Megawati Sukarnoputri, the daughter of Indonesia's first leader, Abdurrahman Wahid, leader of a large rural Muslim group and a champion of secular Islam, and Amien Rais, who is popular among urban Muslims and has recently been preaching a secular message of national unity, have long prevented them from pulling it off.

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The maker of the bike-share software, PBSC Urban Solutions, Inc. in Montreal, didn't return a message seeking comment.

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Today, the National Urban League came out with the State of Black America 2009: A Message to the President.

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And despite its depressing enumeration of the failure of so many schools, particularly in poorer urban areas, its miserable ending, and the bleakness of its title, the movie also has a message of hope: there are good schools and teachers in America, whose methods could make its education system as good as any in the world if only they were allowed to.

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