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...camera picks up Pete Fredriksen, 56 and still dressing in t-shirts. Tonight's is black and printed with an image borrowed from the Beatles: four giants of Democratic charisma crossing a road - Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy, Bill Clinton and Obama. Fredriksen is talking about the energy and optimism of Obama's young supporters. "They remind me of myself years ago." Then cut to Bruce Elfant, 49, a more practical sort. He's the Travis County constable and a lifelong soldier in the beleaguered ranks of Texas Democrats. You hear him talking about his hope that a jolt of Obamamania...
...Trouble with Amy I applaud Josh Tyrangiel's defense of Amy Winehouse in his article "Trouble Woman" [Feb. 4]. She is a rare talent, and her music is a wonderful combination of Aretha Franklin and Janis Joplin, with a little touch of Otis Redding thrown in. She would have been very much at home at Stax Records. It's troubling to read about Winehouse's high jinks in recent months. Despite her enormous gifts, she has inner demons and struggles. However, I still root for her because, as is evident on Back to Black, Winehouse is aware of them...
...college, “I was expecting less. I was happy she spoke about ecology and education.”Another student was impressed by more than Royal’s rhetoric. “She does put American female politicians to shame,” said Beatrice C. Franklin ’11. “She’s got way better style.” —Staff writer Prateek Kumar can be reached at kumar@fas.harvard.edu.—Staff writer Rachel A. Stark can be reached at rstark@fas.harvard.edu...
...Trouble with Amy I applaud Josh Tyrangiel's defense of Amy Winehouse in his article "Trouble Woman" [Feb. 4]. She is a rare talent, and her music is a wonderful combination of Aretha Franklin and Janis Joplin, with a touch of Otis Redding thrown in. She would have been very much at home at Stax Records. It's troubling to read about Winehouse's high jinks in recent months. Despite her gifts, she has inner demons and struggles. However, I still root for her because, as is evident on Back to Black, Winehouse is aware of them...
...Then again, one of Obama's most effective lines is about the "craziness" of trying the same old thing in Washington "over and over and over again, and somehow expecting a different result." The first politician I ever heard use that line - weirdly attributed to everyone from Benjamin Franklin to Albert Einstein - was Bill Clinton. It is a sad but inescapable fact of this election that Bill and Hillary Clinton have now become "the same old thing" they once railed against. In a country where freshness is fetishized - and where a staggering 70% of the public is upset with...