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Clinton's and McCain's story lines would be set and would even have a synchronicity to them. Clinton would be declared unstoppable in her party's primary but doomed in the general election. For McCain, that bet would be made in reverse. Clinton would have the money; McCain would have the media. Each would be haunted by another President: for her, the one she is married to; for him, the one who beat him the last time he ran. And if it should come to a head-to-head race between them? It could be a close...
...easy. When Paolini's parents realized they had a teen Tolkien on their hands, they quit their jobs, published Eragon themselves and put Paolini on a grueling tour schedule, from junior high to junior high, library to library. He became the family breadwinner. "As the saying goes, we really bet the farm," Paolini says. "It was down to the point where if we didn't sell enough books, we didn't have food on the table." Isn't that a lot of pressure for a teenager? "You have no idea," Paolini says. "Even though I was home schooled, I have...
...Bet you didn't know how much Ray Charles and Johnny Cash had in common...
...this new song Crack Music"--an indictment of drug abuse. "I tried saying, 'This is crack music, homey,' but it just didn't have the same impact. My mom's a teacher, and I'm kind of a teacher too. But the hood, the suburbs, MTV and BET are my classrooms, and I know how to talk to my class." The word nigga appears multiple times on the album...
AREN'T YOU ONE OF THE PEOPLE WHO CAN CHANGE THAT? You bet. It's something we try to deal with every night on Nightly News and every morning on the Today program. We can always improve. I'm very concerned about the lack of respect for the news media, collectively. I think we all have a responsibility to repair that...