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...mention all this not to heap slag or prognostication--the journalistic equivalent of slag--upon the Edwards campaign but to give you a sense of what life is like for nearly every one of the candidates dragging themselves defiantly through Iowa in the final weeks of this campaign. No one knows what's going to happen--and almost everyone appears to be losing ground, slipping on the Iowa ice, with the possible exceptions of Barack Obama and, on the Republican side, Mike Huckabee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trudging Through Iowa | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

...snooty triple interview, Hollywood's current intellectual superstars generously heap their unique, self-promoting wisdom on us. Never had I seen a more self-absorbed, pretentious and detached-from-reality list of irrelevant observations and pseudointellectual blather. To top it, the interview spanned two pages and included its own laugh track ("Others laugh" ... "More laughing" ... "Everyone laughs"). Miklos Magyar, CRYSTAL LAKE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Artistes | 12/12/2007 | See Source »

...representatives past and present heap praise on Sundquist, tossing around words like “magnetic” and “uncanny.” UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 said he chose Sundquist as his running mate because he (Petersen) wasn’t “quite as outgoing...

Author: By Chelsea L. Shover, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Running on Experience | 11/30/2007 | See Source »

...snooty triple interview, Hollywood's current intellectual superstars generously heap their unique, self-promoting wisdom on us. Never had I seen a more self-absorbed, pretentious and detached-from-reality list of irrelevant observations and pseudointellectual blather. To top it, the interview spanned two pages and included its own laugh track ("Others laugh" ... "More laughing" ... "Everyone laughs") for this once-in-a-lifetime cultural event. Miklos Magyar, Crystal Lake, Illinois...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 11/22/2007 | See Source »

...many different Yale affiliates. After all, the founding of Yale was based upon the biggest mistake of all when, in 1701, a group of ten Harvard alums thought they could do better than their school along the Charles. They came together, threw all of their books into a heap to form a “library,” and declared a new college established. Yale, then called the Collegiate School, spent its infant years getting passed around from city to city like a plate of cheap hors d’oeuvres until its founders finally settled on New Haven...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Mistakes Were Made | 11/16/2007 | See Source »

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