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...40th anniversary of the Fab Four's conquest of America, I detailed the initial mainstream U.S. response: that they were a passing fancy, that their music was derivative, and that the funniest thing about them were their haircuts. It was the last gasp of an adult establishment that felt secure in dismissing anything new, scorning anything young; and the Beatles were both. (George Harrison, when he and his mates made their Sullivan debut, was younger than Kevin Jonas is now.) In the intervening decades, the mainstream has learned its lesson: not to deride what kids love but to embrace...
...confessed to lying about an affair he’d had with an 18-year-old political intern named Beau Breedlove. Despite the fact that Adams denied the affair throughout the course of his mayoral campaign, Breedlove insists that he welcomed Adam’s advances and had never felt victimized—he was a legal adult throughout the sexual aspects of the affair...
...served as president of the Law Review when Kagan was supervising editor, says the competitive atmosphere was a source of discontent among her fellow students. As a result, only a small subset of the student body, such as many members of the elite Law Review, felt they received attention from the aloof faculty.“The people who were stars got a lot of pats on the back,” Steiker says, “but those who weren’t, didn’t feel sufficiently appreciated.”By switching to a pass/fail grading...
...them. They went for Bush in 2004 and Obama in 2008. When Ronald Reagan asked Americans in 1980, "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" he was speaking to the middle class. A 1979 public-opinion survey found a rising number of middle-class Americans felt that their lives were getting worse, and it was with those people that his words resonated. In 1997, in the middle of the dot-com bubble but before Monica Lewinsky, middle-class optimism hit a record high - 57% felt they were moving upward - but it has been sliding back down ever...
Their feet were sticky and warm with blood, but neither felt any pain and couldn't figure out the source of the gush. Flores, however, took one look at the messy scene and knew exactly what had happened: the vampires were back in her little Nicaraguan town. (See pictures of "90 Years of Vampires on the Screen...