Word: endedness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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With the waning day peaking through the windows that look out onto Prescott Street, Rae Armantrout, one of the world’s most famous living postmodern poets, seated herself at a mahogany table and began to read to a couple dozen audience members amidst the stately decor of the...
“In America any boy may become President and I suppose it’s just one of the risks he takes.” So said Adlai Stevenson in 1952—rather ironically, given his failure, two times, to be nearly as well liked as Ike...
By wiping out his family, Rajaram also wiped out the seemingly bright future of his children. "His family was healthy, his son [Krishna] was on a Fulbright scholarship at UCLA, his 7-year-old was at a magnet elementary school, a high-performing student, as was his 12-year-old...
The evening ended with an incongruous question plucked by Brokaw from thousands of online submissions: "What don't you know, and how will you learn it?" Obama took the mush as a signal to deliver his closing statement - a classic of the front-runner stall: when in doubt, praise the...
He once thought the town-hall format was his friend. John McCain began the general election by challenging Obama to a long series of loosely structured town-hall debates. Ultimately, he got just one. And it ended with the clock ticking down to the buzzer.