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...never gets angry or flirts with hot chicks by asking them to be his Vice President. Obama has written about using pot and cocaine, but a New York Times article found only school buddies who said he merely dabbled with marijuana. That's because the only people who bring up their drug use didn't really do drugs. Try asking George W. Bush about alleged cocaine use. You'll see how the nonnerds play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Obama Overcome the Urkel Effect? | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...Foundation, a right-leaning think tank with a reputation for getting its numbers right. If the various tax cuts and credits Barack Obama has proposed on the campaign trail are enacted, the group estimates, that figure will rise to 63 million, while John McCain's tax plans would bring the tally to 62 million. Either way, more than 40% of the population would stand to come out even or ahead on April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time to Pay the Price | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...merit, given that almost all income gains in recent years have gone to the top 1%. But because the rich can afford good tax lawyers, there are diminishing returns to increasing their tax rates. Returning to the pre-2001 top rate of 39.6% (from 35% now) would surely bring in more money, but going much higher might not. Also, the bulk of the recent gains at the top of the income spectrum has come from huge paychecks in the financial sector--paychecks that are almost sure to shrink in coming years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time to Pay the Price | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...that, as headquarters of the U.S. embassy. Though U.S. officials removed some of the more egregious reminders of Saddam--like massive stone carvings of the dictator's head--the palace's marble floors and soaring ballrooms still make an incongruously imperial backdrop for the civilians and soldiers working to bring democracy to Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tale of Two Wars: Iraq | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...they don’t want to sound like themselves, they want to sound like your favorite band. Perhaps the only exception is the serenely sparse “Cavalry Scars,” a minute-and-a-half piece of inspiration, whose airy arrangement of percussion and melody bring a vitality and warmness to the album that bridges that gap.“Microcastle” is a masterpiece in a new sense of the word. It addresses the impossible demands of a niche and an industry whose goals contradict one another—commercial experimentation, profitable rebellion?...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Deerhunter | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

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