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...defensive and flat, and his answer to a question about whether Clinton should abandon her still unlikely bid for the nomination betrayed how the entire episode has knocked the front runner off his stride. "I'm sure that Senator Clinton feels like she's doing me a great favor," Obama said, "because she's been deploying most of the arguments that the Republican Party will be using against me in November." Which might be enough to make a guy bitter...
...like you, couldn’t be more in favor of shortening the name of the Department of English and American Literature and Language. Fitting those words on my curriculum vitae or using them to introduce myself to people from other schools is a royal pain. They come across as pretentious and snobby...
...retreat stupidly into the hallway.Had the Viscountess been in a reflective mood, she might have considered the possibility that she no longer possessed for him the charms she had once had as a young bride; but that thought was too painful to accept, and she thrust it aside in favor of fury. Yes, he had done it on purpose; he had acted out of unadulterated malice.But the Viscountess had never been one for defeat. She was no shy violet; she would not allow that thing, that pitiful imitation of a man, to trample her again without retribution. She laced...
...change is a major issue, and he has begun to acknowledge the economic pain visited upon manufacturing workers in places like Michigan and Ohio. If he persists in seeing the election this way and running on his convictions, he will be doing the Democrats - and the nation - a great favor...
...real heat of the campaign will be on the issues - war and taxes - where there is a real difference between McCain and the Democrats. He will have an advantage in the war debate: both Democrats favor a rapid-withdrawal timetable for Iraq - one to two brigades per month - that is probably untenable. But McCain has a more significant disadvantage: most Americans are sick of the war and do not want to hear his wildly unrealistic bottom line - that the U.S. needs a long-term military presence in that perpetually brutal noncountry. On taxes, McCain is likely to find himself debating...