Word: focusing
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...what's the left's top docu-comic agitator been up to this election season? He's not as intense a focus of inspiration and rage as he was four years ago, but he's still busy. He's published a pocket-size paperback, Mike's Election Guide 2008, which details how the Democrats can win the election (and how they could blow it). He released a movie record of his 2004 tour, Slacker Uprising, free on the Internet, becoming the first major filmmaker to do so. He's got a website, MichaelMoore.com, a cross between the Huffington Post...
...points over Mitt Romney. New Hampshire voters tend to be fiscally conservative-the state is home to the Concord Coalition, an anti-deficit non-profit-but fairly progressive on social issues. From that perspective, McCain seemed like a welcome change from Bush: a fiscal conservative who wouldn't focus much on abortion or gay marriage. And, in fact, Barack Obama and McCain stayed fairly close in New Hampshire polls up until the end of the summer...
...Hockey will announce the identity of its Olympic coach in January, but until then Stone’s focus is on preparing the Crimson for another run at that elusive national title. Stone does not ultimately decide whether or not her team wins the championship—that burden rests on the shoulders of the Harvard skaters...
...Rogers. To Biega, improvement still means doing the same things that made him so successful as he was trying to integrate himself into the Crimson squad his freshman year. “Now that it’s my second year, I feel I can be more relaxed and focused,” Biega says. “I think this year I just have to keep doing the same thing, working hard, and hopefully the puck goes my way.” The puck certainly went his way last year, as Biega’s nine goals were enough...
Most Americans do not trust media coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign, citing media bias and misguided focus as their primary concerns, according to a poll released by the Harvard Kennedy School last week. The poll—which was co-sponsored by the Merriman River Group—found that 89 percent of U.S. citizens agree or strongly agree that the news media focuses too much on trivial issues, 77 percent agree or strongly agree that the news media is politically biased, and 82 percent agree or strongly agree that media coverage has too much influence on whom Americans...