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McCain should stop trumpeting the issues on which he leans leftward, because liberals are still going to vote for the Democrat. Why pick Teddy when you can have Franklin? Instead, McCain should persuade voters that his deal is squarer than his opponent’s. His rhetoric needn’t be ugly, only firm. He also should remind conservatives why he’s worth the vote—he’ll need every one of them in November...
...bigger issue for voters to wrestle with, though, is not what the economy can do to the presidential race but what the next President can do to the economy. Usually it's not so much. But every once in a while, like when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected in 1932 and Reagan in 1980, the effect can be dramatic. Reagan's policies, together with some luck and the inflation-killing zeal of Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, helped the U.S. economy break out of its 1970s malaise into a new era of flexibility, innovation and growth. And this era didn...
...about Steven A. Franklin ’10? He always said he wanted to make Harvard a fun place “for the rest of us.” But guess what? After an extremely successful punch season, Steven joins the A.D. Club, ditching his old roommates for a sweet off-campus apartment. He decides that he can never live in his hometown of Indianapolis again, deeming Indy “too unsophisticated for my bicoastal sensibilities.” He also learns how to dance, well...
...overarching theme at all. While reading the essay about Super Bowl XL in Detroit, I was not at all sure how describing Stevie Wonder as a “playful, gigantic black baby who has absorbed all terrestrial sounds and language in a single gulp” or Aretha Franklin as a “300-pound mountain of congealed hurt” was at all relevant to his broader message about anomie...
Enter Susan McDonald. The 38-year-old, who moved to Franklin Reserve three years ago, was walking with her kids along one of the development's new foot trails and saw gang graffiti on a fence. "I thought to myself, This is it--I am done," says McDonald. She voiced her concerns on the town website. "I got 85 responses to do something," she says. She helped found the Franklin Reserve Neighborhood Association (FRNA), which today has 405 members. FRNA created a "good neighbor" letter to let absentee landlords know when their renters were causing problems, and organized a Sunday...