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...lesson Syesha’s taught me is easier to grasp after a little primer from Top Model. The current finalists—Anya, Fatima, and Whitney—do not include the best photographic model (Lauren, placed sixth), the charismatic fan favorite (Claire, placed eighth), or the girl who arguably looked most like a model in person (Katarzyna, placed fifth...
...doing so, Hizballah will have secured its existence as an armed state-within-a state, despite decades of American efforts to prevent Lebanon from being used as a staging ground for operations against Israel. But the U.S. appears unable to grasp that it no longer has any options or reliable partners left in Lebanon. American officials make statements about supporting the democratically elected Lebanese government, but essentially no such government exists. The Lebanese army, many of whose soldiers are Shi'a Muslims and support the opposition, would split apart if pressed into service against Hizballah. The American-trained security services...
...donors had re-upped for Hillary's bid. Her 2006 Senate campaign had raised an astonishing $51.6 million against token opposition, in what everyone assumed was merely a dry run for a far bigger contest. But something had happened to fund raising that Team Clinton didn't fully grasp: the Internet. Though Clinton's totals from working the shrimp-cocktail circuit remained impressive by every historic measure, her donors were typically big-check writers. And once they had ponied up the $2,300 allowed by law, they were forbidden to give more. The once bottomless Clinton well was drying...
...from “Something’s Coming” from Leonard Bernstein’s “West Side Story” and reenacted his audition. As his voice began to swell, Hill suddenly stopped short of the refrain and motioned silently as if trying to grasp the words. “I completely forgot the words to the song,” he recalls. “It was pretty embarrassing. But more than embarrassing, it was a lesson that you need to know your song completely cold.” Still, despite this rather ungracious...
...convention has both reflected the Democrats' proudest egalitarian instinct - and hidden the germ of their worst nightmare. That latter possibility has now arrived. There is no road map for where the Democrats are going; there aren't even many roads. The candidates and their aides have only a dim grasp of how the endgame will unfold, though some maintain a healthy sense of humor about their predicament. David Axelrod, Barack Obama's top strategist, donned a shirt on the plane out of Pennsylvania that read STOP THE DRAMA, VOTE OBAMA...