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...Trillin has penned dispatches on topics as diverse as Kansas City barbecue and finding parking spots in Manhattan, as well as acclaimed memoirs like About Alice, a remembrance of his late wife. Trillin's new book, Deciding the Next Decider: The 2008 Presidential Race in Rhyme, traces the campaign in verse...
...thinking about your attitude toward the campaign, the word that kept coming to mind was "bemused...
Yeah, well, the campaign was bemusing. One of the wonderful things about it is the people I've always referred to as "Sabbath gasbags" - the Washington people who appear on television on Sunday - were wrong, I guess, 100% of the time. They were almost never right. There were constant surprises. Who expected any of this stuff? It was only in looking back at it that you realized, hey, at one point this was going to be [Rudy] Giuliani vs. Hillary Clinton...
...what degree did media coverage of the campaign successfully illuminate the way people are? Or did the media rely too heavily on things like horse-race narratives...
...program that was sorely lacking, taking it about as high as one can go in the Ivies. And, as he showed, he can win games—the Bulldogs beat co-champion Brown this season, and their first three losses in this year’s 6-4 campaign were by a combined seven points...