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...course candidates should seek to garner as many first-choice votes as possible, but they should also not ignore voters who are clearly supporting other tickets. Instead, campaigns should try to grab students’ second-place votes, which can be influential if the election requires a runoff...
...circular) and an idiosyncratic vocabulary to go with it (she refers to her fetus as a "sea monkey"). The movie was written, in one of those only-in-Hollywood scenarios, by the equally idiosyncratic Diablo Cody after a talent manager stumbled across her blog and got her a deal. Garner and Jason Bateman play the potential parents, but it's Juno's dad (J.K. Simmons) and stepmom (Allison Janney) who steal the show. This is not the first movie this year in which people get pregnant and then find out how they feel about each other, but it could...
...vast oil wealth, can afford to indulge socialism and eschew foreign investment; but most other Latin American nations can't. Their economic growth still depends on the kind of capital that global competitors like China and India are raking in, but which Latin America seems unable or unwilling to garner. The chavistas rightly argue that the distribution of capitalism's fruits has been grossly unequal in Latin America - which is a large reason why leftists like Chávez have been swept into power in recent years. But the region needs that investment nonetheless - and even leftists like Zapatero sound...
Getting mixed reviews. JENNIFER GARNER, for her Broadway debut as Roxane in the revival of Cyrano de Bergerac...
...kind of evolving friendship and professional relationship that I value very much,” Faust said of sharing the award with her fellow Ivy presidents. This year’s winners, who were nominated by a board of about 200 past Glamour women, include actress Jennifer Garner, fashion designer Donna Karan, and political figures such as Elizabeth Edwards and Nancy Pelosi. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner, was noticeably absent from the list. Glamour editor Lauren S. Brody said in a phone interview yesterday that in compiling its list, the magazine looks for women who have...