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...Assuming freshmen have voted at rates that they have in the past, that would assume that there has been depressed turnout among upperclassmen—which we feel would benefit us, given that Sundquist, as the incumbent, is familiar to the upperclassmen,” Prabhakar said...
...mirror image of the novel they know, that’s not always the goal of the director. Wright’s “Pride and Prejudice” was a failure for me, but for many other, more open-minded viewers he invigorated a worn and familiar story. Sometimes it’s necessary for an adaptation to be less true to the book if it is to succeed in its new medium. With “Atonement,” Wright may have found a story that can bridge the two media without any such sacrifice...
Many Britons are familiar with that routine, which Johnson has honed in parliament as MP for the affluent constituency of Henley in southeastern England and as the occasional presenter of a TV game show. Readers not yet acquainted with his signature style will get a flavor of it from this verbatim response to TIME's question about whether he considers himself a conviction politician. (For full impact, the passage must be declaimed in the poshest of English accents.) "I certainly have a range of convictions. Not for anything serious. God. I don't have convictions actually...
...fact, a certain gentleman by the name of Newt Gingrich—I think you may be familiar with him—spearheaded the effort of the Congress to issue an official “censure.” What do you think of Newt Gingrich...
...Americans are probably familiar with Forex, the international exchange market where the only thing traded is money. It is open 24 hours a day, five days a week, and a place where all the trades are done electronically. There is no central trading floor. Yet, at roughly $1.9 trillion worth of trades per day, it is by far the largest financial market in the world...