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...This is something to keep in mind now that the Thomas Friedmans and Arianna Huffingtons of the world are imploring Obama to get angry, to shed his above-the-fray cool and fight back against the McCain campaign's silly-season accusations that he's a charismatic chauvinist who wants to teach kindergartners how to have sex. Over the past 18 months, Obama has been attacked as a naive novice, an empty suit, a tax-and-spend liberal, an arugula-grazing élitist and a corrupt ward heeler, but the only attacks that clearly stung him involved the Rev. Jeremiah...
...larger point is that opposing earmarks is not the same thing as shrinking government or balancing budgets or getting the economy going again. President Bush opposes earmarks too, but spending and deficits have soared on his watch. McCain was right to fight the Bridge to Nowhere, but it's worth keeping in mind that when Palin finally gave up on it, the money didn't go back to the Treasury - it stayed in Alaska to be used for a different project. Most pork, even egregious pork, doesn't go Nowhere...
...lene's country home as much as Frédéric is; both want to sell the place and the valuable paintings and furniture in it. Frédéric has to decide whether to swallow his rancor for the sake of family amity, or fight with the others to keep what he always assumed would be his mother's monument and his perennial summerhouse...
...rally has since featured Harvard spirit contests, appearances by the football team, choruses of little-known Harvard fight songs, and performances by the Harvard cheerleaders...
What Hollywood and the press who cover it once would have treated as an unmissable cinematic moment - a pairing of two of the greatest actors of their generation - is instead being greeted around town with a shrug. "It's like Ali and Frazier are about to fight," says Paul Dergarabedian, president of the box office tracking firm Media By Numbers. "And people are weirdly indifferent...