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...Much has been made of Giuliani's likely troubles with religious conservatives in his party over abortion and gay rights. "Everyone really likes and respects the mayor personally," said Florida Republican strategist Brian Ballard, who has cast his lot with McCain. "But it's tough to take that record and run in a conservative primary...
...assumed when we had the right to vote, people would actually vote. People here shed blood for that right," said Obama. At the breakfast, Dallas County Commissioner, Kim Ballard presented Obama with a key to the city, joking that in 1965 he might have "needed it to get out of jail," citing the troubled time for African-Americans...
...He’s now cutting an album with the well-known producer Glen Ballard, and it will probably come out in January," Andrew Urban said. Ballard is an award-winning producer who has worked with Shakira and Michael Jackson, according to Ballard’s Web site...
Aside from Charles Dickens or Franz Kafka, not many novelists get their own adjective. But there is Ballardian, in Collins English Dictionary: "Resembling or suggestive of the conditions described in J.G. Ballard's novels and stories, especially dystopian modernity, bleak man-made landscapes[an error occurred while processing this directive] and the psychological effects of technological, social or environmental developments." A mouthful, but Ballard has earned every word of it. In 20 novels and 20 story collections over his half-century as a writer, he has created an anti-utopian gulag of ostensibly placid communities - island resorts, luxury apartment towers...
...shopping and boredom, shopping and politics (the talk-show host acquires a political following). An incipient fascism sweeps the English motorways from one deracinated mall-town to another. If Kingdom Come has a flaw, it's dialogue that sounds like a lecture on social theory. To liven things up, Ballard marches his shoppers to the brink of armed apocalypse, and he displays an attention to detail that can lull you into suspending disbelief. Especially if you have traveled the new English landscape of soccer thugs, superstores and paved-over villages where, as Pearson says of Brooklands, "it was impossible...