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...Having worked for The Economist for nearly 30 years, Kallaugher has developed a great affinity for the magazine. “I’ve been given a huge amount of freedom,” he says. Furthermore, Kallaugher believes the magazine brings an independent perspective desperately needed in America??s politically polarized culture...
...fall debut.An old adage says, “It ain’t cheating if you don’t get caught.” Well, Detroit Tigers pitcher Kenny Rogers got caught and it was on baseball’s biggest stage. The latest scandal surrounding America??s pasttime emerged during the second game of the World Series on Sunday night when Rogers allegedly made use of pine tar, a sticky substance expressly prohibited of pitchers by Major League Baseball. Almost as soon as the Fox cameras zoomed in on the now-infamous yellowish-brown smudge...
...North Korea, for example, can gain more from stockpiling its arsenal than it can from bombing a peaceful country. Countries with nuclear weapons should ideally use them to put pressure on other countries rather than explode them and run the risk of retaliation, writes Schelling. He also wonders how America??s changing view of nuclear weapons will affect its use of them. It would have been nice to see such an engrossing topic in the second half of the book...
This was not lost on Streisand’s New York audience. Everyone knows that Dubya is not that bright, and any skit over 30 seconds long merely belabors the point. As Streisand’s lackluster satire went forward, order collapsed faster than Air America??s ratings. One audience member began to heckle Streisand and her Bush lookalike, setting off a major showdown with the Brooklyn-born diva. Not to be upstaged by someone offstage, Streisand decided to meet chutzpah with chutzpah...
...won’t try to explain the significant positive correlation between red states on this map and those on a traditional red-blue map. The political repercussions are beyond this piece.) Coming in 47th out of 50 states, the state that puts “The Spirit of America?? on its license plates had a 24 percent college volunteering rate, 6.5 percent below the national average and better than only New York, Nevada, and Georgia—a rare political outlier...