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What are the top two or three tips you have for caption writers? Be brief. Try to incorporate everything that's going on in the cartoon. Sometimes somebody will submit a caption that addresses one thing going on in the cartoon, but not something else that's pretty obvious. I think the more successful captions address everything that's going on. I'll depart from Patrick House here. He said not to try to be too funny. I think you should try to be as funny as you can. He's right that sometimes you see a winning caption that...
...Life of the Grand Old Party Your story on the GOP's risk of extinction squarely addresses the Republicans' problems of connecting with voters but neglects to address the fact that, save Barack Obama, the Democrats are not in any better shape [May 18]. Remove the highly popular President from the Democratic equation, and that party, as evidenced by the previous Congress's approval ratings, is even less popular than George W. Bush. For all the cataclysmic talk about the GOP, the Democrats are one person away from being in the same boat. Constantinos Scaros, Cliffside Park...
...union began falling apart almost immediately, as the old power struggle was simply transferred to inside the government. Nothing was done to address the simmering divide across the country. When Kibaki flew to Kiambaa for the funeral last month, he found himself without Odinga and addressing an almost exclusively Kikuyu crowd. The Kikuyus spoke of how Kalenjins were still plotting their slaughter. Hearing an account of the funeral, Adams Oloo, a politics lecturer at the University of Nairobi, nods and says: "There is no healing." That's often the case in Africa. Kenyans want peace. But their leaders thrive...
...Monday evening's GOP annual joint Senate and House fundraiser, the biggest Republican congressional event of the year, which is expected to rake in at least $10 million. The Alaska governor was originally invited last spring by Pete Sessions, the chairman of the National Republican Campaign Committee (NRCC), to address the dinner. She accepted, or so Sessions thought, and a press release went out. But there was apparently a miscommunication in Palin World between Washington and Alaska advisers, because as it turned out, the 2008 vice presidential nominee had a conflict and said she might not be able to attend...
...wholly surprised by the speech's heavy focus on climate change—especially given Chu's current government position. Though Eyal Dechter '09 did not find the speech "overwhelmingly inspiring," he said the balance between Chu's colloquial humor and specific rallying point made an effective Commencement address...