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...post-announcement swing through Florida and Iowa, Clark deflected questions on issues that ranged from AIDS in Africa to the Patriot Act. But that did not dampen the enthusiasm of the supporters who greeted him wherever he went. "National security will be the primary topic during next year's election, and I believe he is the person who can beat George Bush," said Kate Lawrence, 52, a secretary from Dubuque who was part of the overflow crowd at a long-scheduled lecture Clark delivered Friday at the University of Iowa. A sampling of the audience's views suggests that Clark...
...first-person aspect of Mountains Beyond Mountains is more than an insurance policy on the book’s credibility. The work also contains passages exploring the enthusiasm and ambivalence Kidder felt as he watched and heard Farmer outlining the world’s inequities in the starkest and most accusatory of terms...
...comparable to that in most of the world. When the U.S. was awarded the World Cup in 1994, the European press was virtually unanimous in deriding the decision. The tournament became far and away the most successful in the history of the World Cup, but European elites dismissed American enthusiasm as a sign of America’s naïveté and lack of sophistication. Real soccer aficionados, as some European commentators joked, would have never filled a huge stadium on a Wednesday afternoon for a game between Morocco and Saudi Arabia...
Such a buffet of contemptibility can work--see Curb Your Enthusiasm--with a good, mature cast. Coupling's, like so many post-Friends ensembles, is just smirky thirtysomething kids with $100 haircuts. The show does have a touch for madcap-farce plots based on lies and miscommunications, even if they're a bit farfetched. (The pilot, for instance, requires that you believe the stalls in a women's bathroom are soundproof.) At times you see, as on a disappointing date, the sophisticated adult Coupling could have become. Instead, it sidles up to us in its pleated Dockers, asking lamely...
Hopefully, this extraordinary turnout of candidates will prompt a similar voter turnout, starting at noon today when uc-vote goes active. Harvard students need to embrace their civic duty by voting for quality candidates to serve on the council. With voter turnout down last year, the enthusiasm shown by candidates should invigorate their peers to get out—or, more accurately, get online—and vote...