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...offering his arms for their next meal; the bucolic vista of a Princeton street where people have hanged themselves from trees; the sight of a family man revving up his Jeep and driving into a tree; the report of a bus in a lake. But he didn't attach these potent vignettes to a story with any narrative or emotional plausibility. The movie keeps ignoring its internal logic. If the killer is borne by the wind, why don't people in the affected area just stay inside with the windows shut and wait it out, instead of traipsing across eastern...
...Obama says, they all had the same philosophy. "Because I was not favored, that meant that the people who signed up for this campaign really believed in what the campaign was about. So they weren't mercenaries. They weren't coming in to just attach to a campaign," he explains. Temperament mattered too. "It was very important to have a consistent team," Obama says, "a circle of people who were collaborative and nondefensive...
...He’s just a born journalist with all the complimentary adjectives that you can attach to that and perhaps some of the ones that aren’t so complimentary,” said George H. Watson ’58, managing editor of The Crimson while Clymer was president in 1957, and later best man at Clymer’s wedding...
...brands is Walker's specialty. With a compelling blend of cultural anthropology and business journalism, he makes us fess up about our dependence on brand-name products and explains our nearly irresistible urge to use what we buy to broadcast our identities. Marketers spend millions, Walker says, to attach a story to every object they sell. "If a product is successfully tied to an idea, branding persuades people--whether they admit it to pollsters or even fully understand it themselves--to consume the idea by consuming the product," he writes. "A potent brand becomes a form of identity in shorthand...
...endorse a presidential candidate but is rumored to be on Obama's vice presidential shortlist, might have been more open to talks until last week. After the two camps met but failed to come to a resolution on their differences, McCain's allies moved to attach his version - which has nine G.O.P. co-sponsors - to an unrelated bill on the Senate floor. The Senate came to a grinding halt for two hours as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid worked to remove McCain's amendment; eventually it was tabled by a vote of 56-42. But the tactic created no good...