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Rove chalks up the loss to corruption, incumbent overconfidence and conservative dissatisfaction with spending. He does not read the outcome as exclusively a judgment on either Iraq or Bush. "Iraq mattered," Rove says. "But it was more frustration than it was an explicit call for withdrawal." Which is not to say the White House didn't see trouble coming. To keep the Republican National Committee from having to take out a loan, according to Republican officials, Bush chipped in $12 million of his campaign funds that otherwise would have gone to his presidential library. Looking ahead, friends say Rove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Karl Rove: A Passing Thing | 11/12/2006 | See Source »

Fans of the HBO show—where the Borat segments made their debut—will note a fair number of rehashed themes from the television sketches. Borat again learns formal etiquette and dines with a group of elite Southerners, and again spices up the dinner conversation with explicit talk of bowel movements...

Author: By Will B. Payne, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Movie Review: Borat | 11/2/2006 | See Source »

...standards. The woman is smart and successful, she has a great job, she meets a man at work, they fall in love, then they get naked and live happily ever after. The sex scene is three pages, more than halfway through the 220-page book. Nothing is extremely explicit; it's filled with euphemisms like "her warmth" and the last line is "then he took them over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign '06: A Comptroller's Race in Texas Grows Hot and Steamy | 11/2/2006 | See Source »

...said that she and her husband, Steve Dostart, president of California-based Dostart Development Company, “had a lot of very explicit conversations about how our lives would mesh...

Author: By Joanna Naples-mitchell, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Power Couples: Both Dreams Matter | 10/31/2006 | See Source »

...characterized by long, static shots—whether of an argument between brothers or an attempt to free a cow’s head from a jug—that allow events to unfold as they do in reality. The films largely resist attaching a narrative or an explicit meaning to their subjects, instead seeming to focus on the minute details briefly before moving to the next topic. Dvortsevoy, who came to filmmaking after aviation engineering, tries to minimize his presence in his own films, instead giving a voice to the people scraping out an existence in the margins...

Author: By Elisabeth J. Bloomberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kazakh Film at Archive | 10/26/2006 | See Source »

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