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...range of distant mountains on the left, telephone wires on the right, a barren pocked road disappearing into the horizon: We are “approaching nowhere.” The cover establishes the melancholy mood prevalent in the collection of 20 years of photographer Jeff Brouws’s work.At first glance, “Approaching Nowhere” appeals to the average over-worked Harvard student’s escapist fantasies. Full-page photographs of empty highways ending in mist and deserted rest areas blend in with the barren landscape: you can almost feel the wind whistling...
Note to airlines: correct local time is the only time I require. How often do you stop someone on the street and ask for the incorrect time in some distant city...
...August, the dark horse had enough support to generate 2,587 votes at the Ames straw poll, a fund-raising fandango for the Iowa GOP at which candidates pay to have their supporters attend. Huckabee finished a distant second behind free-spending Romney, while Giuliani and McCain skipped the event entirely. But veteran pols noted that Huckabee's tally exceeded the number of tickets he bought--speculating that people were taking Romney's freebies but casting their ballots for Huckabee...
...percent of all polled said that the poor showing on both sides of the aisle recommends the rise of a third major party. The same percentage of respondents registered “Iraq and the War” as their number one issue, while health care came in a distant second at 9 percent. “Iraq matters and everything else is distant, that’s what the poll is saying,” said Matthew Baum, a visiting associate professor of public policy at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG). The poll, started in 2000 by Harvard...
...still fondly remembered. Indeed Sarkozy's embrace of tougher anti-immigration policies have created considerable antipathy in Algeria - as has the President's refusal to apologize for crimes and abuses committed during France's colonial past. The resentment has even gotten personal: last week, apparently referring to Sarkozy's distant Jewish ancestry, the Algerian Veterans Affairs Minister Mohammed Cherif Abbès described France's "Jewish lobby" as "the real architect of Sarkozy's ascent to power...