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...spread out and doesn't have enough hotel rooms downtown to accommodate all of the participants," Zafran said, "so 'less important' state [delegations] like my home state of New Jersey were staying in a hotel pretty far away from the downtown." But this small issue wasn't enough to diminish the importance of the convention for Zafran. "On Wednesday night, I was sitting next to the Ambassadors from Iraq, Oman, and Luxembourg to the United States," Zafran said. "It was a pretty incredible reminder of how much this election means to the world." —Staff writer Prateek Kumar...
...Obama wins the South Carolina primary, Bill Clinton compares him to Jesse Jackson, a remark seen by some as an effort to diminish his victory...
...Truly, to borrow the title of an earlier Roth novel, he has been our "Professor of Desire." He has done so with a truthfulness to the mess of it - its unseemly secretions and unspoken secrets - that's unprecedented in literature. Now in his seventies, himself afflicted with illnesses that diminish performance, but not desire, he has taken to writing, brutally and wistfully, about what happens when the irresistible life force (always defined as sex) meets the immovable object, which is life's inevitable...
...former McCain adviser, John Weaver, also expressed worry to the Atlantic Monthly that the spot would make McCain look "childish" and "diminish the brand." On the other side of the argument, Republican strategists worry that the new approach may not be enough to take down Obama, especially in the absence of a third-party group, like the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth in 2004. "They have managed to scare off outside groups," said one veteran party strategist of McCain's, who, as a longtime supporter of campaign finance reform, is opposed to such third-party spending. "The outside groups have...
Such excesses by the authorities will almost certainly diminish once the Games are over. And in any case, it's increasingly obvious that as the capital's creative sectors bloom, so does the ability of those working in them to circumvent or ignore the rules. That has helped shape a second city hidden under the bland façade of broad boulevards and marbled ministries, argues Hu Xudong, a noted poet, columnist and professor of literature at Peking University. "Underneath the official Beijing we have another Beijing that's more like Latin America than China," he says. The city's other...