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...rest of us come in. If horse breeders have stopped raising animals that are sound for the long run, it's because the audience for mature racehorses--like the audience for maturity in general--has vanished. Seabiscuit, over his 89-race career, drew huge crowds season after season. By contrast, this year's Derby winner, Big Brown, will command the public eye for two months at best, retiring after the Belmont Stakes in June. Provided he lives that long...
...contrast, Obama has offered voters a very different kind of transaction. Instead of new things, he has emphasized a whole new way of thinking about politics. "It's about whether we will have a president and a party that will lead us to a brighter future," he declared Tuesday night, in his North Carolina victory speech. He has presented himself as a transformative figure who can float outside of American history, undefined by his race, his Harvard education, his globe-trotting childhood, or the culture wars of the 1960s. He sells himself as the man who could "change the world...
...like all major port cities, is a mudroom to America. And, as is often the case, the door to the outside is more exciting than the door to the inside. The international terminal of Logan Airport, high-ceilinged and abuzz with travelers, invokes adventure and exoticism. North Station, by contrast, is a dark concrete platform in the shadow of the Boston Garden. There’s no adventurers here—just commuters, lined up to travel into the country’s inner rooms...
Scherer noted the contrast between this cadet class of two seniors with the great number of Harvard undergraduates who have served in past military conflicts...
...notably transport groups whose trucks are banned from driving during holiday weekends - say their schedules are so disrupted by May ponts that they now close business for the first half of the month and force employees to take it off as vacation-whether they want to or not. By contrast, companies in the tourism sector say May has become a one of the best months of the year outside the summer vacation season...