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...Pennsylvania primary confirmed that Barack Obama is struggling to capture these crucial, classic swing voters. His campaign says he can compete in many of the red states won by George W. Bush, but McCain remains an option for independents in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio and Florida--the Big Four that so often decide a presidential election...
...There was a warmth and a feistiness to Clinton in Pennsylvania - the very qualities that Obama was lacking. She had embraced the shameless rituals of politics, including some classic low-information signals, downing shots of Crown Royal and promising lower gas prices, attacking her opponent over trivia and threatening to "obliterate" Iran. It was enough to earn the ire of the New York Times editorial page, which harrumphed, "By staying on the attack and not engaging Mr. Obama on the substance of issues ... she undercuts the rationale for her candidacy that led this page and others to support her: that...
...Sparknotes is disgusting,” says Magliozzi. With a calm demeanor and an intellectual air, Magliozzi fits right in at the pseudo-intellectual Hist and Lit haven, Café Pamplona, tucked away in a corner table. “These are the classic works of literatures—we should be engaging more, not less...
...seems counter-intuitive for the creator of a Web site devoted to annotating classic works of literature and blogging about popular courses at Harvard to be so opposed to an ostensibly comparable pursuit to his own. Sites like Sparknotes.com—another Harvard alum creation—and Cliffnotes.com have been around for nearly a decade, providing apathetic students a quick and easy 30-minute Idiot’s Guide to not sounding like a moron in class. But those sites are so...high-school...
...equivalent of forcing them to read a book,” Haley says. But Kaplan isn’t the first company to use video games for educational purposes. In 1998, Macmillan Digital Publishing released “Math Invaders,” an action game resembling the classic “Doom.” While it was more popular than previous educational video games, its mild success owed largely to the fact that math took a backseat to entertainment. Kaplan has yet to divulge details about their latest product, but if “Math Invaders?...