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...drawn rapt attention in France, where Strauss-Kahn is considered one of the opposition Socialist Party's sharpest minds - and a leading contender for a 2012 presidential bid. For now, however, the besieged IMF chairman finds himself at the center of a storm stemming from an acknowledged extramarital affair with IMF subordinate Piroska Nagy, who oversaw the organization's African department until she resigned in August of this year...
...recent accusations? And, of course, Kaavya’s alleged indiscretions would have had a more limited impact if they had occurred before the age of blogs and mass media. In the words of Yasmina Reza, a French playwright who wrote an excellent piece about the Kundera affair for Le Monde, “one can broom someone’s entire life in 30 seconds” these days...
...junior chipped in 95 yards of total offense out of the backfield and kept the chains moving on the Crimson’s first-half scoring drives.But even when Harvard seemed poised to put the game out of reach, Clark and his offense proved game for a high-scoring affair. After four of its first five drives came up empty—including the fifth, which ended with a Dorris interception return for a touchdown to push the Crimson’s lead to 14—Clark engineered an impressive 80-yard drive and capped it with a bullet...
What has gone largely unnoticed, however, is that the evening marked just the second time in 20 years that both presidential candidates had been invited to attend the gathering of Catholic elites. The event itself is a strictly nonpartisan affair. However, the question of whether the Archdiocese extends an invitation to certain candidates has produced no small amount of political drama in past election years. Obama's presence on the dais at the Waldorf-Astoria is just one sign that this may be the Democrats' best year for Catholic support in decades...
...seems almost a more fitting troubadour than the explosive, snarling youth that wailed on “Maggie’s Farm.” The live cuts are all supreme, though they favor recordings prior to his most recent tour—a much more subdued affair than is apparent on a rousing 2002 cut of “Lonesome Day Blues.”To a certain extent, any release from the Bootleg Series is useless to all but the serious Dylan fan. Over the years, Dylan’s studio albums have evolved into institutions of their...