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...this / Looking like a four-eyed wooly mammoth,” rapped Forrest N. Blackwelder-Baggett ’11. Northeastern junior Benny D. Lombardo kept it simple: “Me against you rappin? / You sound like me when I’m crappin.” The crowd responded to every line, cheering the best remarks while booing the corny ones. One of Lombardo’s weaker lines, “If he went to jail he’d probably be a slut. / This one needs a haircut,” earned him a barrage...
...rose to offer C-SPAN viewers another reason to doubt political journalists' ability to be anything but cowardly suck-ups to presidential pomp. In recent years, this event has been known mainly for the fantastic performance in 2006 of Stephen Colbert, the Comedy Central host, who addressed the crowd with a withering critique of both the failures of President Bush and the media. "I stand by this man," Colbert had said sarcastically of Bush, at one point. "I stand by this man because he stands for things. Not only for things, he stands on things. Things like aircraft carriers...
...vodka and nubile ladies who silently walked around dressed in form-fitting airline stewardess costumes. One wall of the main room had a series of stairs that led to the ceiling, at the top of which Rick Davis, the campaign manager for John McCain, sat down to appraise the crowd. The Jonas Brothers, still looking lost and worried, showed up with their hulking bodyguard, while CIA director Michael Hayden, who is responsible for sending secret forces to do nasty things in distant countries, mingled with no apparent security...
...just haven't slept in 24 hours." At around this point in the night, it occurred to me that I had made a horrible mistake in choosing my profession. Then I fell into conversation with an actor and writer. I asked him how he thought the Washington, D.C., crowd compared to the type of party scene one would find in Hollywood. He was both delicate and perceptive, saying that people on the West Coast have a "social intelligence" that the Washington crowd seemed to lack...
...central Baghdad neighborhood of Mansour, which has also seen heavy clashes between Awakening groups and al-Qaeda over the past two years, residents say the insurgents are also introducing new tactics. On Saturday, a bomb exploded in a small storefront, after police and a crowd had gathered in response to the shooting assassination of the shopkeeper and his son. "They are using a new strategy, drawing people to a scene before an explosion," one Mansour resident told TIME. Last week, he said a fight between a group of young people outside a neighborhood school drew a crowd. After the teenagers...