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...about The Wire, which doesn't just show the tragedy but gets behind it, demonstrating how we're all complicit in a more-with-less culture, but also all cheated by it, all frustrated by its vicious cycles and all called on by small voices to rise above it anyway. This common humanity--call it stubbornness or call it conscience--is the final connecting wire of The Wire. It may be frayed, it may be poorly maintained, but it is all we have left. For four seasons and what is shaping up as one searing, elegiac season more...
...separate from the U.S. ski team? Martin Rosengreen MADISON, WIS. The team cut my funding, [so] I was going to be paying for myself anyway. There were other issues. [For example,] I thought it would be productive to have a bus with a gym in it and our own chefs so that we can control our food. Not that it's ever been an issue, [but] somebody could put a little of any banned substance in our mass pastas in our hotel, and we'd all be disqualified, no questions asked...
...Benazir was certainly not a perfect political leader, but she sure was a brave one,” Fadiman said. “I think that she knew when she went back this time that there was a real chance she would be assassinated, but she went anyway...
...Victory is easy. You thank everyone. You beam. You kiss your spouse and ride the goddess momentum all the way to New Hampshire. But what happens if you didn?t actually win? If possible, you declare victory anyway. The most famous example of the "declare victory" strategy was Bill Clinton in the 1992 New Hampshire primary. Many forget that Paul Tsongas - the lethargic, fiscal conservative from Massachusetts - actually won the '92 New Hampshire primary by 9 percentage points. But it was Bill Clinton who after staring down the media over an alleged affair with Gennifer Flowers and questions about his draft...
...Republican nomination and the White House is a long road. Mine will go through all 50 states." Then he argued that McCain, "spent more time in this great state than any of the other candidates, and it paid off" - the rhetorical equivalent of, "I wasn't really trying anyway...