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...wasn't so long ago that the candidate who appeared to have laid out a straightforward path for himself to reach the 2008 Republican nomination was John McCain. With the Republican establishment climbing aboard the Straight Talk Express, his campaign budgeted for a $100 million race, in which it would hire all the party's top talent and contend vigorously across...
...scrawled messages written from soldiers to their mothers, brothers and lovers, briefly, and hopefully, describing life on the front. I stood mesmerized, reading postcard after postcard. I struggled through, first, the messy, smudged handwriting, second, my mediocre to decent French reading skills, and third, my disbelief that people could express themselves so concisely and poignantly on the back of a four by six photograph...
...President feels bad about the nation's opinion of him-a meager 25% of those surveyed in a June Gallup poll approve of Bush's performance-all he needs to do is pick up that same poll and keep reading. According to Gallup, just 14% of people express confidence in the current Congress. That's the lowest measure in the 34 years Gallup has been tracking government institutions...
...know what the characters are thinking. [But] people disregard it. It's sort of an unspoken prejudice." Bird sees the bias in official film history: "I read articles about great first films. I have never seen Toy Story listed. Is that not as impressive as, say [Spielberg's] Sugarland Express?" He also feels animators are ignored at Oscar time: "An animation director has never been nominated for best director. Ever. People don't understand what directors of animated films...
...this summer, temporarily relocating to a different city and working in a professional environment has opened my eyes to the reality of post-graduate life, from meeting people in elevators, cobbling outfits out of sundry Express or H&M pieces I find buried in my suitcase, to marching in step with an army of white-collar workers on my way to work each...