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...Democratic incumbent Jon Corzine, an off-year race that both parties are watching for its national implications. In the midst of a recession, Corzine, a former Goldman Sachs CEO, would seem to have a natural advantage over Christie, who boasts no policy experience and in fact seems to delight in telling crowds, "I will never be the smartest man in the room." But with Wall Street (and in particular Goldman Sachs) being blamed for much of the financial crisis, Corzine's professional background has turned into a major liability. His unpopular moves of late - he's raised taxes...
...between Dick Cheney and • falling rates of teen pregnancies and STDs were sharply reversed during White House years of, so maybe obsessively preaching abstinence at the expense of educating kids about contraception wasn't such a hot idea • 2006 embrace by was sidestepped by Bono, to the delight of then Senator Obama, who said, "Nice work with the hug dodge," a sentence that had probably never before been uttered in the history of humanity...
...Apollo, god of the arts, reason and harmony, and Dionysus, god of wine, ecstasy and disorder. "Philosophically, we are trying to set aside this opposition between the body and soul," he declares. "Pleasure is in the mind, too; it's not only physical." Perhaps. But there's true corporeal delight in the surprise of biting into confectionery topped with numbing Sichuan buttons, or in experiencing previously unimagined combinations like artichoke confit with green aniseed, or foie gras - infused marshmallow - an elegant précis of the French culinary canon in one cubical mouthful. (See the top 10 Tour de France...
More people than he thought. Last weekend, a revival of Lerner and Loewe’s musical, “Camelot,” opened at the Goodspeed Opera House. Although the production is only in preview season, it is already a delight...
Trump, Donald • alleged delight of at engagement of daughter of to son of another distasteful real estate tycoon • lawsuit of against author who claimed actual worth of is a fraction of the billions endlessly and nauseatingly boasted about by is thrown out of court • reference to in new book by Kurt Andersen as "a clownish reality-show artifact" is not appreciated...