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Once all the candidates have at least 15%, a formula Culver describes as "needing a Ph.D. in math to understand" is used to determine how many delegates each candidate gets. The percentage of delegates each candidate gets is the number reported in the media. Then the media, for reasons that are unclear, pretend that has something to do with whom the country wants to be President...
...fortune estimated at $4.4 billion by Forbes magazine) by attracting younger passengers onto modern, glitzy ships, where the casinos start at 8 a.m., the discos are hopping until the wee hours, but the library opens for only an hour a day. Arison is hoping that Carnival's mass-market formula can be adapted from short cruises in warm climates to the sterner waters of the North Atlantic without destroying the romantic aura of transatlantic crossings...
...project as it sounds. In this case, the task is less a matter of invention than articulation. The point is not to abandon outrage and invent a vision to replace it—in fact, the positive vision already exists beneath the Left’s complaints, and a formula for bringing it out lies within the outrage itself...
...Once all the candidates have at least 15%, a formula Culver describes as "needing a Ph.D. in math to understand" is used to determine how many delegates each candidate gets. The percentage of delegates each candidate gets is the number reported in the media. Then the media, for reasons that are unclear, pretend that has something to do with whom the country wants to be President...
...background illustrates the hollowness of this promise. The dynastic enterprise known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (D.P.R.K.) has been open for business since 1948, and for most of that time it's been building, and gaming, its nuclear program. Long ago, Kim & Co. figured out a formula for extracting protection money from abroad in return for promising to scrap the nukes: make a deal, break the deal, then demand a new deal for more, issuing threats until you get what you want. So far, it's worked pretty well. Pyongyang got the previous President Bush to remove...