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...Taylor, 28, whose online alter ego is named Laura Skye, said that her husband's virtual infidelity exacted a pain that cut as deep as any extramarital liaison. "It may have started online, but it existed entirely in the real world and it hurts just as much," she said. "His was the ultimate betrayal. He had been lying to me." (See the 50 best websites...
...torch passes on election day; the power follows in January. But in between comes a personal transaction, like the one that just took place at the White House. It's not simply ego that has a way of fouling up this moment. Both parties have an eye on the history books, as the outgoing President airbrushes the epilogue, and the arriving one prepares the prologue...
...course, there’s Barack Obama’s kindergarten essay, “Why I Want to Be President.” “There is that tension,” Cannon said. “You’ve got to have a huge ego just to even think about [being president], but if you’re not careful, people will think you’re insufferable.” I e-mailed government professor Roger Porter, former adviser to Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and George H.W. Bush, about the question of presidential ambition. Porter...
It’s that time of the semester—because no one is doing the reading anymore, section now features the wildly postulating alter egos of your once-intelligent classmates. FM’s here with a how-to guide for section survival, allowing postulating alter ego to remain in its rightful place. 1) Talking about the reading in a book you’ve never touched: Take a sentence anyone else has said and note that you find some inherent contradiction. Tell everyone you’ve got to find this other passage that corroborates your point...
...perfected the peaceful transfer of power from old regime to new: no crimes, no coups, no blood in the streets. But that doesn't mean the future Former Leader of the Free World has an easy time handing over the keys to the White House. It's not just ego that has a way of fouling up this transition; both parties have one eye on the history books, as the outgoing President airbrushes the epilogue and the arriving one prepares the prologue. (See pictures from the White House Photo Blog...