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...Triumph of the Will (the central figure lands in a city, meets the locals, attends a rally with guest speakers, then wows the crowd himself). Among the guests are Celeste Zappala, the outspoken mother of a soldier killed in Iraq, and a cadre of antiwar diplomats. At some venues, famous musicians are on hand: Eddie Vedder, Joan Baez, Steve Earle and Tom Morello, ex of Rage Against the Machine...
...Elle, Reese Witherspoon. Filling those knee-high patent pink leather tie-up boots is no doubt a demanding job. Arduous fans of the 2001 film will find her very obvious efforts to replicate every last one of Witherspoon’s somewhat inimitable facial expressions (largely dependent on the famous chiseled chin and popped rosy cheeks) charming and quite startlingly successful. And while Gulsvig brings nothing new to the table physically, she sings and dances and pouts and struts and costume-changes with inhumane speed, all of which combine to create an enjoyable overall experience. What was missing, however...
...witness the real McCain, the political animal in his natural habitat, you have to leave the lectern far behind. The Republican nominee's heart will probably always lie in his famous town halls in the tight-knit communities of New Hampshire. On Sunday night, too late for many of the networks to cover it, McCain returned once more to his adopted home for one more unscripted, spirited gathering. He was greeted in the streets of Peterborough by roughly 1,000 screaming, pom-pom waving and freezing supporters...
...Bohnett of Beverly Hills, Calif., who in 1999 sold the company he had co-founded, Geo-Cities, to Yahoo! in a deal worth $5 billion on the day it was announced; Timothy Gill of Denver, another tech multimillionaire; James Hormel of San Francisco, grandson of George, who founded the famous meat company; Jon Stryker of Kalamazoo, Mich., the billionaire grandson of the founder of medical-technology giant Stryker Corp.; and Henry van Ameringen, whose father Arnold Louis van Ameringen started a Manhattan-based import company that later became the mammoth International Flavors & Fragrances...
...larger shift on the left since 2004 in the direction of big-money politics, a shift most clearly seen in Barack Obama's refusal of public financing for his campaign. The Cabinet is only one of several flush, members-only liberal groups that have formed since 2004, the most famous (and richest) being the Democracy Alliance, whose sponsors include billionaires George Soros, Peter Lewis (father of Cabinet member Jonathan) and Pat Stryker (sister of Cabinet member...