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Last year I wrote a cover story called "The Case for National Service." Now that the argument has been made, this year we're asking, How do we help execute that vision? Well, by doing it yourself--except in this case, we have hundreds of partners...
...says, "Nature wins, doesn't it? You can't really compete with a few hundred million years of evolution." As we contemplate our mortality, I feel bad for judging him for quoting Keats; he has earned the right to ponder without having to amuse me. But then he adds, "Except spiders. Lose them. Nothing needs eight f______ legs...
...familiar. Except that these people are, in varying degrees, idiots, engaged in an enterprise that ought to be left to the higher IQed. The Coens' tactic could be a caustic commentary on the ineptitude of those employed to keep the secrets of the U.S. government (Osborne and Harry are figures of, respectively, raw bluster and empty charm), if it weren't that virtually everyone in the movie operates on seriously diminished candlepower. Linda believes that her advancing age has rendered her so unattractive that she seeks transfiguration through plastic surgery...
...Wooten, contacts she insists she hadn't known about. It turns out an increasingly wary state police had recorded one of those conversations, which is fairly explicit in its intent. The call, from Palin ally Frank Bailey to a state trooper, intimates that Palin was otherwise happy with Monegan except on the Wooten issue: "I'm telling you honestly, you know, she really likes Walt a lot, but on this issue, she feels like it's - she doesn't know why there is absolutely no action for a year on this issue. It's very, very troubling...
...just starting a run at the town's Reel Cinema, can compete. Le tout Loughborough has turned out to meet another Dave, a politician seeking the highest office in Britain. This evening he'll speak in the town hall, in a room overlooking "Sock Man," a bronze figure naked except for one sock and a strategically positioned leaf. It's a monument to the hosiery industry in this central England town - not quite Berlin's Siegessäule, the portentous backdrop to Barack Obama's big foreign policy speech in July. David Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party and (barring...