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...ability to raise money has become an independent test of a candidate's prospects, completely apart from money's traditional role as a way to buy things. Candidates raise money not to purchase TV time and hire political consultants. They raise money to prove that they can raise money. All the major candidates have rejected federal subsidies in order to avoid the contribution limits that go with them. This includes McCain, whose name is on McCain-Feingold, the most recent failed attempt to curb money's role in politics. When the press started reporting that his campaign was in trouble...
...handbag was named for haute-hippie actress Jane Birkin after a chance meeting with Hermès chairman Jean-Louis Dumas on an airplane in 1984. As the story goes, Birkin was rummaging through her basket-weave purse when it fell apart. Dumas assisted her in collecting the dropped items, they struck up a conversation, and?voilà!?shortly thereafter Dumas had the Birkin bag created as a token of friendship...
...alienation cannot explain such a callous indifference for the human life and the human community which he so savagely and so easily tore apart, using nothing more than 9 and 22 millimeter handguns...
...pitch hanging in the strike zone. Ankney jumped on the ball, slamming a hard line drive well over the right field fence. After a mistake like that to the No. 2 hitter and with the meat of the lineup coming up, some rookies might lose their confidence and fall apart. Not Max Perlman. “It really fired me up,†he said. “It was a really bad pitch, and it motivated me to get through the rest of the game.†Perlman came right back and got ahead in the count...
...experimenting for pure fun, the results are often novel, and they provide the only venues where his lyrical ability is showcased to positive effect. “Time,†with She Wants Revenge, is dark and rewarding, like their hit single “Tear You Apart,†but the real treat is “One & Only,†performed with Fall Out Boy. Possibly the best song on the CD is “Apologize,†which provides a taste of OneRepublic, whose debut album is set to drop in late...