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...Iowa farmhouse just yet. Despite his newfound enthusiasm for the state, not everything about Giuliani translates well this far west of the Hudson. In the audience at Coney's was Stan Sheldon, who has been active in Iowa presidential politics since 1936, when he got into trouble for pasting Alf Landon signs on the door of his school. This time Sheldon is supporting Romney. "I think he's been married three times," he said of Giuliani. "That's gonna hurt him here." And in a state where ground organization is everything, Giuliani's starstruck audiences seemed to include few G.O.P...
...opponent in sight of goal would be applauded off the pitch. That it isn't - quite - reduced to these depths is a mark of its enduring moral core and the complexity of the relationship between those who play the game and those who watch it. The former England manager Alf Ramsey notoriously refused to let his players exchange shirts with their Argentine opponents after the turbulent World Cup quarterfinal of 1966, describing the South Americans as "animals." Ramsey, it might be said, did not merely want victory: he wanted his men to demonstrate that they were better people as well...
Bush’s firm desire to privatize Social Security is driven by ideology, not reality. This same ideology prompted Republican presidential candidates Alf Landon to describe Social Security as “a cruel hoax” in 1936 and Barry Goldwater to advocate the repeal of Social Security in 1964. In 1978, a young Bush ran for Congress claiming that Social Security would be broke by 1988 unless private accounts were established. Unfortunately for the would-be Congressman, he was wrong. Unfortunately for all college-aged Americans, Bush is trying to phase out Social Security once again...
...specialty, but as a snarling, seductive wild child--half Elvis, half Sid Vicious--he captured the ebullient superficiality of the age. When he faded from the scene in 1990, the timing seemed preordained. He was as ill equipped for the atmosphere of a new decade as Molly Ringwald or Alf...
...Stripes, the Hives, the Strokes and the Vines. The Bachelor, with its retro-style dating theme, was just one among many nostalgia-oriented television shows. There were reunions of The Cosby Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, M*A*S*H and numerous others (for God's sake, even Alf made a comeback, if only in commercials). But if The Bachelor was retro--even Paleolithic--in its harem-style courtship setup, that's not the same as saying it was nostalgic. Rather, it was an example of the ambivalence underlying most of today's so-called nostalgia: the past...