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...high school classmates spend the summer tanning, they head off to Annapolis for Plebe Summer. “Start your days at dawn and end them long after sunset, wondering how you will make it through the next day,” advertises the USNA website. “Forget television, leisure time, or movies. You will have barely enough hours to in the day to finish your assigned plebe tasks.” Enticing...
...been so long since we have had an old-fashioned confirmation bloodletting, you could almost forget the foul mood that overtook the U.S. during the fights over Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas. Washington was so shell-shocked by the Thomas battle that people were intent on turning the next Supreme Court vacancy, in 1994, into a milder affair. And Stephen Breyer's confirmation process proved to be a breeze...
With Fox's comfortable dominance in the high-pitched world of cable, it's easy to forget that in the mid-1980s it was the right that felt abused and ignored on the airwaves. In 1985, North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms launched a campaign to get 1 million conservatives to buy 20 shares of stock in CBS each and "become Dan Rather's boss." Conservatives still argue--garnering huge and sympathetic audiences in the process--that the traditional media giants lean left. But these days, that familiar spiel is done more for rhetorical effect. Conservatives know their power in talk...
...right punctuation for Beyonce Knowles. No comma or period can contain her exuberant idiom; no semicolon can keep her from her meandering linguistic path. In the middle of her runaway sentences, Beyonce usually interrupts herself with deep, rolling spasms of laughter. Whether the subject is her tendency to forget lyrics while performing, her lack of time to devote to a boyfriend or her profound inability to play guitar, every utterance arrives with its own disruptive laugh track. Then there are the pauses--earnest, eyes-drifting-into-future-space jobs that can stretch 10 or 15 seconds. Thus a typical Beyonce...
...color barrier by joining the National League's Brooklyn Dodgers; in Montclair, N.J. In a 13-year career spent mostly with the Cleveland Indians, the star center fielder never lost his cool despite segregated conditions and rejection by some of his teammates. "The Bible ... says you should forgive and forget," he observed in 1999. "Well, you might forgive. But boy, it's tough to forget...