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Sommers described Expos as the “model and envy of other writing programs.” Indeed, Duke once tried to lure her away to Durham and Princeton’s director, Kerry Walk, is a former Expos instructor and Sommers prot?...
...money race is in a different world this time," he sighed as we headed for a house party in Durham. "You've got Obama raising almost $35 million in the last quarter, God bless him." And Hillary Clinton, nearly as much. "But it has no relationship with what's happening in the states. Here in New Hampshire, nobody's made up their mind. Only [10%] of likely voters say they're definite about their choice ... So we think we're very much in this thing...
...matter of style is obvious: he talks too much, and often imprudently. At the Durham house party, Biden wandered garrulously through a series of themeless anecdotes, which were often interrupted by other anecdotes, punctuated by gloppy attempts at folksiness ("As my mother used to say, 'No purgatory for you-it's straight to heaven!'") and the occasional condescending, syllabic pronunciation of a key word: "It's about di-PLO-ma-cee, folks...
...Then again, Biden's Durham awkwardness may have been caused by the way his hostess, state representative Marjorie Smith, introduced him. She asked him to talk not about foreign policy but about "some of the other issues in this campaign, like health care and global warming." And while Biden can talk with some authority and insight about almost any issue, it is Iraq that is consuming him. At his next house party, he devoted his entire speech-a far more focused effort-to the war. It was something I hadn't seen this year; most candidates, in both parties...
...recent afternoon, during a tour of passenger security at the Raleigh-Durham International Airport, a gray-haired man in a yellow plaid shirt asked the screener, "Who's the bald...