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Palin then traveled some 250 miles northwest to join the Tea Party assault on Harry Reid in his ink-dot hometown of Searchlight, Nev. (pop. 738). Despite fears of unrest and a crowd of several thousand angry activists, the Searchlight event turned out to be a tame affair, mostly vague speeches about freedom and the evils of Washington. But the rhetoric was at times deviant and downright ugly: placards and T-shirts reading "Send Obuma [sic] back to Kenya" and "Pelosi is the White House's new Monica" were visible during Palin's brief speech, and she made no effort...
Whether it’s a blowout or a closer affair, the change in the win-loss column is the one figure that counts. For the Crimson, its two games progressed differently, but in the end, both meant the same thing...
...forget the past and the father of her child. Mezzogiorno delivers a stunning performance, masterfully portraying the desperation of a scorned lover. Her obsession with her imagined marriage to Mussolini (Filippo Timi)—a problem first and foremost because he was already married with children before his affair with Ida—is second only to her resolve that she hasn’t imagined anything and is justified in her demands for legitimacy...
...freshman affair for Harvard in the Mystic Lake Invitational, as three out of the Crimson’s four sailors were rookies. One of those three, Jason Michas, teamed up with the lone sophomore at the regatta, William White, to help the Crimson’s A boat to a sixth-place finish while freshmen Sam Millham and Alma Lafler took eighth place...
...rhythmic cadence, oftentimes lulling but punctuated with ecstatic outbursts of emotion. But he also finds resonant expression in the simple, clear voice of Bliss’s early memories and seems to favor this more restrained style in some of his later compositions. Recalling the love affair that would end in the birth of his son and future assailant, Bliss reflects: “High up the trees flurried with birdsong, and one clear note sang above the rest, a lucid soaring strand of sound; while in the grass cicadas dreamed.” Ellison’s ability...