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Congressman Rahm Emanuel of Illinois had a nice moment on Meet the Press about a month ago. He said Democrats would run on their "ideas" in the 2006 congressional elections. "But what are the Democratic ideas?" moderator Tim Russert asked skeptically. Emanuel proceeded to rattle off five big ones, which seemed to shock Congressman Tom Reynolds of New York, his Republican debate opponent. "Those are the first solutions that have come out of (any Democrat's) mouth," Reynolds said...
...Election Day of 2005, I checked in with Emanuel at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) offices-he's the current chairman-and asked him to elaborate. He responded with a rat-a-tat of ideas and expletives, a joyousness unknown to Dems in recent years. But then, Emanuel, a former ballet dancer and Clinton White House capo, has always seemed a human amphetamine. I kept asking him to slow down as I took notes. He wouldn't, but here's the general idea...
...Everything on the table-loopholes, pork, Bush tax cuts. "And then you gotta have a reform piece," Emanuel hydrofoiled. "Actually, that should come first. Clean up the relationship between lobbyists and legislators, same way we did donors and candidates. This place is a cesspool-gotta address the gifts, free trips, the revolving-door lobbying jobs for staff members...
...summer is “a fairly typical process that occurs every year,” said Drag. “It’s considered folklore, but I’d say anecdotally that it’s definitely a common occurrence.” However, Kerry A. Emanuel, a professor of atmospheric science at MIT, disagreed that an Indian summer really exists, saying it is just one of the many temperature fluctuations that happens in New England during the winter season. “The Indian Summer is more a psychological than meteorological phenomena,” Emanuel...
...classical music. At Loeb, you can view Johan Forkel’s earliest biography on Bach, or try to decipher Mozart’s handwriting on the dedication of his first string quartets to Haydn. There is also an entire section dedicated to four sons of Bach: Carl Philipp Emanuel, Wilhelm Friedmann, Johann Christian, and Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst. Bach’s sons are largely responsible for preserving a lot of their father’s musical work and making sure it eventually was published. Houghton’s displays meanwhile explore performance manuals and composition treatises written by some...