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...each party picks its nominee and then as the two winners square off in November. The pocketbook is back in a big way on the presidential campaign trail, rocketing past the Iraq war to the top of voter concerns. "For every candidate in either party, this is the supermarket-checkout moment: Do you get it? Do you understand what people are going through?" says Bruce Reed, who ran the policy shop for Bill Clinton's It's-the-economy-stupid campaign in 1992. "Candidates who feel voters' pain and have a plan to deal with it will do well...
...floral motifs - comes courtesy of Singapore-based Eco-id, the same architects behind the fashionable Metropolitan in Bangkok and W in the Maldives. But it's the extras that really shine. There's complimentary airport pick-up in a Mercedes-Benz for all guests, in-room check-in and checkout, breakfast with a free flow of champagne (even if it isn't a Sunday) and a gratis minibar. A fully equipped kitchenette is found in all 34 suites - of which 10 also boast an in-room wine chiller - and the five rooms on the Ladies Floor have dedicated amenities...
Many shops in the Square already offer reduced prices to students who show their Harvard IDs at the checkout. The UC’s new card is designed to publicize these existing offers while adding new discounts at popular Square destinations, according UC Vice President Matthew L. Sundquist...
They were waiting for the same doctor who, on the same day, would treat Johnny P.! How many people they would tell! And what confidence my patients had that day - in me. I heard no long-winded rebuttals based on what the lady in the checkout line thought I should do to treat their shoulders. So attentive and so agreeable, my patients hung on every word from Johnny P.'s doctor. Even my administrator felt the change: "We should pay that guy to come here. Everybody's so nice," she said as I gulped coffee between appointments...
...relied on became liabilities. His spirited antics began to look oafish. Instead of being witty and wry, he came across as smug. And all of it became media fodder. In the words of one movie critic (O.K., Time's Richard Corliss), he was "a commodity that gets consumed in checkout lines" rather than in a cinema. Every decision he made appeared to be exactly the wrong...