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...Search panel and call up his stories. You must delve into the bound volumes of the magazine in 1949 and 1950, where, for each review, the author's name is written in the margin. Thanks to the yeoman work of Arts maven Amy Goehner and ace librarian Bill Hooper, we have a firmer handle on Manny's Time work. We can't speak with certitude, since other names - probably the researchers', less likely other reviewers' - occasionally appear with his. When Polito compiles his Complete Manny Farber edition, we'll know for sure. For now, I'm taking on faith...
...throughout the campaign warmed to her homespun, sensitive speaking style. That down-to-earth appeal should be on full display Monday night, when she appears in her biggest venue yet. But that is only part of the real Michelle Obama. The country wouldn't get a two-for-one Bill and Hillary presidency if she were to become First Lady, but it would definitely get a lot more than many people realize...
...opponent didn't choose Clinton to be his running mate because he couldn't handle her "truth"-telling, while another features a "proud Hillary Clinton Democrat" declaring her intention to support McCain in the fall. Rumors of intraparty strife reached such a fever pitch Monday morning, including talk that Bill Clinton was upset about the appointed topic (national security) of his speech, that the Obama and Clinton camps issued a joint statement stressing their unity...
Political parties tend to get pragmatic after years in the wilderness. In 1992, sobered by three straight losses, Democrats nominated Bill Clinton, hoping his moderate, Democratic Leadership Council-formed policies would expand the party's appeal to swing voters. George W. Bush used a similar tactic in 2000, running as a "compassionate conservate" and lecturing his Republican colleagues for "balancing budgets on the backs of the poor...
...record, can appeal to two groups of voters with whom Obama has had difficulty closing the sale: blue-collar workers and suburban female voters, whom Obama strategists hope will remember the fights Biden waged on the Senate Judiciary Committee against conservative judicial nominees and for legislation such as the bill that became the 1994 Violence Against Women Act. "Joe's about as good a messenger as we can get to those groups," Rendell says. "And once you've got a good messenger, the issues cut in our favor...