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...ideas for saving the Oscars. He is right: they do need a change. Right now the show is like the drama-club awards in high school. And nobody wanted to hang out with those kids, cuz they were, like, so weird. The Oscars should totally be a popularity contest, like electing Homecoming Queen. Then, finally, some good movies could win Best Picture. Like Norbit. Or Wild Hogs. Or 300. While you're at it, Mr. Corliss, could you jazz up the presidential race? Who cares about all these debates on stuff nobody understands? I think we'd be better...
...Nevada could still get the last laugh. Because of the calendar contortions, Nevada's Democratic caucuses has gotten nearly 10 days of undivided press coverage. And with Clinton and Obama entering the contest with one win apiece in contested states, Nevada has suddenly become viewed as an important tiebreaker...
...Which is perhaps why this past week has been marred with accusations of racism, complaints about external groups and a lawsuit over whether or not the nine Strip caucuses are even legal. The candidate that enters the contest with the biggest logistical advantage is Obama, who received the coveted Culinary Workers Union endorsement last week. The powerful group of 60,000-plus members could well swing the caucuses one way or another. They are so powerful that when Nevada was setting up the system a year ago they convinced the state to allow the nine special at-large caucuses...
...race moved from the monochrome fields of Iowa and the overwhelmingly white exurb known as New Hampshire into Nevada and South Carolina. The Nevada population is one-quarter Hispanic, and typically about half of South Carolina Democratic-primary voters are African American. Within hours of reaching those states, the contest between Clinton and Obama acquired a racial text and subtext that posed dangers for both candidates. The spat subsided only after the candidates stepped in to defuse the tension and return to the sort of post-identity campaigns that both will need to run in the general election...
...contest pitting the son of a Kenyan against the wife of the man Toni Morrison suggested was "the first black President," it was perhaps inevitable that a battle over race would be joined at some point. It took the form of an arch and insidery back-and-forth between the candidates over the role that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. played in the civil rights movement...