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...American public to see the candidates exchange policy proposals for the future at the scheduled debate on Friday night. The primary responsibility of the nominees right now is to allow American voters to make an informed choice for the next president. McCain’s gambit is clever: The suspension is an offer Obama cannot refuse without playing into McCain’s depiction of him as an ambitious, self-serving politician. But Obama did right to call the Republican’s bluff, in spite of the apparent risk to his image. Anything else would have been downright selfish...
...many Alaskans, all this maneuvering is a bit too clever. Palin's jockeying doesn't just clash with her previous image as a good-government reformer. It strikes some here almost as a matter of state sovereignty. There was grumbling when the McCain campaign brought in a high-powered cheechako (that's an outsider), former federal terrorism prosecutor Ed O'Callaghan, to dictate the governor's strategy and deal with the media. Spokeswoman Stapleton says O'Callaghan is in Alaska because she and Van Flein need the extra help, and that the media have made this a national issue...
...immigration, but I just can’t.Thankfully, Smith’s novels don’t need me: they are wildly successful, and in many ways they deserve the acclaim they received. Smith is a gifted writer whose works are positively epic: plentiful characters, rich plot twists, and clever details that enthrall and intimidate the reader. Furthermore, she taps a store of compelling themes: race, immigration, colonialism, and ethnic and cultural ambiguity. But she does so with such a heavy hand that it’s impossible not to feel as if you’re being bludgeoned...
...hopes, will spark a fresh reappraisal of the work of the most misunderstood, and very likely best, playwright currently writing in English. That is far from a widespread view. In America, Ayckbourn is still typecast, anachronistically, as a lightweight boulevard farceur (the "British Neil Simon"), or simply as a clever deviser of staging gimmicks: plays that squeeze the action in several rooms into one space, or move backward in time, or fill up the stage with water, or (in his insanely ambitious Intimate Exchanges) have no fewer than 16 dramatic permutations, depending on which alternative action the characters take...
...back continued to aggravate the Crimson’s attackers.Although shots were aplenty, the lack of polish in Harvard’s finishes kept the Crimson chasing a result in the waning minutes of the match.With five minutes to play, Pennock was once again called into action. A clever through-ball from the midfield allowed Akpan to slip past URI’s center backs and allowed the star forward to get off a glancing shot on goal. Despite slipping past a stingy backline, the ball could not sneak through an outstretched Pennock as the Rams’ keeper...