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Ever since Palin took the stage, Obama's aides have seemed especially clueless about how to react to her and almost blind to her cultural power as a middle-class mom with five kids and an NRA card. They seemingly can't decide whether to attack her as a book-banning Bush-of-the-North extremist who brought partisanship and cronyism to small-town government, dismiss her as a provincial novice in over her head, brand her as a double-talker who opposes pork only when it isn't hers, or simply ignore her. According to a TIME poll, McCain...
...agree with Senator John McCain's war policy on Iraq--my son was killed there--I respect Sarah Palin for her decision to keep her Down-syndrome baby [Sept. 15]. I am the father of a 28-year-old Down-syndrome daughter, whom I've cared for almost single-handedly since the death of her mother 16 years ago. My daughter has been a source of joy and hope in the midst of family setbacks. Even if Palin does not win the election, she at least has put a new face on Down syndrome. I thank her for that. Joseph...
Your self-confidence is almost intimidating. Do you make a conscious effort to project it, or does it come naturally? -Mauricio Beltran, ChicagoWell, that's not naturally who I am, you know. I understand what you're saying, but I don't think all the films I've made have been that way. The ones that I made that were more vulnerable, people never...
...first novel, An Atlas of Impossible Longing, during the Indian subcontinent's most momentous years. Between 1907, when the novel opens, and its conclusion circa 1956, the subcontinent saw the struggle for independence and tragedy of partition. But these impinge on Roy's tale of private lives subtly, almost as noises offstage - for the novel is above all a love story...
...gills with the paradoxical pairings we’ve come to expect and doubling “Night Ripper’s” dose of kitschy songs from artists like Chicago and Hot Chocolate. Gillis’s inclusion of more non-hip-hop songs can become almost nostalgic, as when he gleefully sprinkles in 90s indulgences like The Cranberries and Sinead O’Connor over more pop and lockable beats. The continued success of Girl Talk’s boundless, ADD-addled music is emblematic of a few cultural trends I certainly won?...