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Although today electors dwell in deserved obscurity, they still have to gather, usually in their state's capital, a month or so after Election Day and actually cast votes. They have carried out that task with admirably robotic precision: only nine have ever failed to vote as they pledged. But they could make mischief in circumstances such as the ones we face today, in which the winner of the popular vote may narrowly lose the electoral vote...
Whenever I stop and find myself contemplating the original Blair Witch Project (something that doesn't seem to occur all that often), I almost always realize that my thoughts never seem to dwell on the actual movie itself. Because really, what made that novel, dirt-cheap, better-in-concept-than-execution horror film explode into an orgiastic pop culture triumph was all the creativity that went on outside of it. Directors Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Myrick didn't come close to producing the most starkly terrifying film ever (still Jaws, hands down), yet their marketing campaign...
Albright, however, had no time to dwell on the still simmering Middle East. A phone call from Jim O'Brien, a Balkans aide sitting in his State Department office watching CNN, was patched in to her cabin. O'Brien was looking at "the most dramatic pictures" he'd seen on the screen in a long time, he told her. Albright scribbled notes on a pad and rushed to the back of the plane where reporters traveling with her sat. Opposition leader Vojislav Kostunica must now "be recognized as President," she said excitedly. Albright hurried to her forward cabin to phone...
...really frusturating to have Philomena's goal called back," Ahn said. "If didn't get the goal we should have definitely had a penalty. The other team lifted the ball in the air but you can't dwell on it. We still had time and plenty of opportunities...
...this late date, I don't want to dwell on my little brother taking my new bike without permission back in 1974. What's important is we both know he was wrong, and I accept his apology. "What apology?" he asked the other day when I stopped by his apartment in Boston in the middle of my vacation. I had a laundry emergency. "I accept, Big Man," I said, elbowing him aside to get to his stash of Liquid Tide...