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...Strauss seemed to show little interest in practicing law. After a honeymoon in Africa while his classmates took the bar exam, Strauss moved to Washington with his new wife to begin work as a policy aide before becoming a staffer for former Illinois senator Charles H. Percy...
...Romney camp's embrace of sports metaphors may have signaled a realization that they need to lower their own - and observers' - bar for success. Doug Gross, Romney's Iowa chairman, took the expectations game even further, recalling a past candidate who was "five states in before he won his first primary," and then went on to win the presidency. Romney accepted the silver with cool grace, but one wonders how well he would receive being compared to perennial GOP punching bag, Bill Clinton...
...before the year is out. Since human frailty is a law of nature, states are compensating with some rules of their own--what are laws if not expectations carved in stone? As of the New Year, you can no longer text-message while driving in Washington State. North Carolina bar owners have to recycle their bottles, and politicians have to tell the truth: all candidates will be asked if they've ever been convicted of a felony, and lying when they answer would count as one. Airlines have resolved to treat us better, but in case they lapse, New York...
Maybe we'd have better luck keeping our promises if we aimed them differently. Resolve to sleep a little more, play with the kids when we're supposed to be working. Then we'll have something to celebrate next year--and maybe resolve to raise the bar...
...earthy herbal taste. Melkon Khosrovian at California-based Modern Spirits uses pumpkins to make his acclaimed Pumpkin Pie vodka. "I came at this as a foodie," says Allison Evanow of Square One, a California vodka made from certified organic American rye. "And we are trying to do for the bar what Alice Waters"--the pioneering local-foods chef--"did for the kitchen. We create something as pure as possible, right down to the packaging with biodegradable labels...