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...campaign broadcasted an ad portraying a young girl being stalked by a rapist that ended with the announcement “Deval Patrick should be ashamed. Not Governor.” Though the ads initially helped Healey, who saw her numbers rise in the polls, a backlash soon followed. Voters have since criticized her campaign for going too far in its negative attack and, in polls, have said they were offended by the tone of the ads. “The ad, as vicious as we’ve seen this cycle, is the equivalent of a Hail Mary pass...
...only thing worse than being yelled at for asking questions would be blaming a mistake on the wrong person or problem.We’ll be there on Saturday. We’ll only write negative things if they’re clearly warranted, and hopefully your paper will follow the same policy. Our knowledge should be plenty up to the task, because you’ll help us with the details.Sincerely,Brad
After performing brilliantly at the 2005 NCAA Men’s Tennis Championships as a senior—making the semifinals in both singles, as a #32 seed, and doubles—Chu joined the pro tour, hoping to follow in the steps of another Harvard tennis great, James Blake...
...follow this: the secretary of defense is killed in a mysterious anthrax attack. Former maverick senator and Vietnam POW Michael Santini is called back to Washington to take his place and play the hero (unsurprisingly, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., gives the book a glowing endorsement). A Russian Mafia boss kills his president and sets his sights on the throne. He colludes with a brainy German gangster and a rogue Chinese general who’s planning a coup and may have tortured Santini in Vietnam. And did I mention the inhumanly beautiful Israeli assassin with whom Santini is romantically...
...having done so, the thinking goes, they have also proven themselves unfit to make one of life's most important decisions: choosing the nation's leaders. As Roger Clegg, president of the conservative advocacy group Center for Equal Opportunity, neatly puts it, "If you aren't willing to follow the law, you can't claim the right to make the law for everyone else...