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Decker’s campaign Manager Jeni M. Wheeler said that “Marjorie does not back down from a fight,” pointing to her exhaustive write-in campaign that won her a sixth term on the City Council in November. Decker had failed to file her paperwork in time for her name to appear on the ballot...
Shutter Island, the 2003 novel by Dennis Lehane (Mystic River; Gone, Baby, Gone), ransacked nearly 2,500 years of murder-mystery tradition - from Oedipus Rex to Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - and was deeply indebted to such early David Fincher films as The Game and Fight Club. The plot, set in the 1950s, is a festival of conspiracies involving Nazis, Soviets, lobotomizers, the CIA and LSD, plus some very crafty lunatics and an oddly convenient hurricane. Packed with word and number puzzles, like a Da Vinci Code with fewer chase scenes, Lehane's story was devised...
...these people, these Naxalites, these Maoists? Who do they fight for? And why? And why this offensive by the government, which by many accounts will deploy more than 50,000 specially-trained troops who employ menacing monikers like COBRA (Commando Battalion for Resolute Action) and Scorpions? Where does the story begin and who are the key players...
...knew that I wasn’t playing my best,” Nguyen said. “I wasn’t retuning as well as I should have...I had to fight through that, and I ended up doing pretty well...
...pariah to the fundraisers, liberal activists and netroots bloggers who have largely engineered the party's comeback since 2006. For his part, Lieberman accuses many of those same actors of "political tribalism" and calls their tactics "vituperative." But he admits that his defeat in a 2006 primary fight scarred him deeply and remains a source of pain. He has had virtually no contact with his state Democratic Party in nearly four years, and it's easy to see that the episode gnaws at him. "The loss in the 2006 primary was as difficult a moment personally...