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Welcome to the late-stage-combat portion of the campaign to lead the free world. Tough attacks, misinformation and anonymous smears are multiplying as both campaigns surrender some control of the conversation to outside groups and dirty tricksters with deep pockets and technological know-how. Legitimate interest groups, high-powered unions and wealthy individuals plan to spend millions on television advertisements, direct mail and computer-generated phone calls over the coming weeks, almost all of them negative. These efforts will be supplemented by a lot of stuff that is even worse, like the faceless fax blast Cohen received...
...pacing is flawless, and the trash level is just right. And One Fifth Avenue has other virtues that are harder to explain. It has an actual Weltanschauung--it gets at the deep truth of shallow people. Women control men with sex. Men control women with money. With rare exceptions, marriage is a Punch-and-Judy slugfest that ends with either divorce or one party's total subjugation. Power and pleasure are the only things that are real, and they endlessly swap places as means and end. Everybody in One Fifth Avenue, good and bad, is bound by these rules...
...Huskies took control of the game in the first half. Three minutes into the action, UConn midfielder Katie Semanoff found forward Lauren Aird in front of the goal where she fired a shot past senior goaltender Kylie Stone. The Huskies kept the pressure on, forcing play to take place primarily on the Crimson’s half of the field. In the first half alone, UConn recorded 11 shots and three penalty corners. Before the end of the half, Aird tallied her second goal after Stone left the net to challenge an attempted shot. The forward gathered the ball...
...Gift of Screws,” former Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsey Buckingham shows more than just his knack for catchy pop music. He also exhibits such control over the guitar that it sounds rugged on one track (“Treason”) and Sixpence-None-the-Richer on another (“Underground”). What’s more, while pushing age 60, he still maintains a smooth voice that makes me wonder why Fleetwood Mac ever had to hire Stevie Nicks. Unfortunately, the album starts with its weakest song. “Great Day” overplays...
...Indeed, Obama has tacitly acknowledged the prevailing skepticism by building accountability into some of his policy proposals. Galston and Kamarck like Obama's proposed Infrastructure Reinvestment Bank "because it would take specific ... decisions [like the 'Bridge to Nowhere'] out of the hands of politicians" and put them under the control of an independent five-member panel, similar to the Federal Reserve Board...