Timeline (The More Things Changed)

What happens when:
 * A PHD student from the University of Chicago moves to Plattsburgh?
 * An Indian-born PHD graduate is offered a position as a professor at Mount Royal University in Calgary?
 * One media company outbids another for a newspaper in New England?
 * And the first black Governor of Virginia mounts a long-shot bid for the U.S. Senate?

Nothing.

Nothing happens in the time immediately following these events, but the world slowly changes. Eventually, history lurches away from our present reality.