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...choice on the basis of "low-information signaling" - that is, stupid things like whether you know how to roll a bowling ball or wear an American-flag pin. In the era of Republican dominance, the low-information signals were really low - how Michael Dukakis looked in a tanker's helmet, whether John Kerry's favorite sports were too precious (like wind-surfing), whether Al Gore's debate sighs over his opponent's simple obfuscations were patronizing. Bill Clinton was the lone Democratic master of low-information signaling - a love of McDonald's and other assorted big-gulp appetites gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Incredibly Shrinking Democrats | 4/24/2008 | See Source »

Tony Lake can seem shy and self-effacing on the outside, but he is fiercely competitive. To get to his day job as a professor at Georgetown University, he rides on a 49.9cc Taiwanese motor scooter, wearing a gray suit, a tie, a black molded helmet and sunglasses. Pegged as an idealist, Lake has big strategies for counterterrorism and international development that have meshed naturally with Obama's belief that the Iraq invasion was an inadequate cold war--style response to 21st century problems like poverty, insecure borders and weapons proliferation. To get Obama ready for a presidential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battling to Be the Next Secretary of State | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

...first days, I went to search a woman, and she started crying. My search partner—who was more experienced—[said] just take of your helmet and show her your hair,” Havice said. When Havice removed her Kevlar helmet to reveal her sweat-soaked bun, the woman “immediately sort of relaxed,” Havice said...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Crimson Call of Duty: Student Soldiers | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

...polka-dotted bow tie. Stranger than his attire is the ensuing wet dream he has of Mariah while supposedly working on her computer. After McBrayer sits down to work, we are inflicted with his vision of Mariah lying seductively in bed while McBrayer dons a gold Viking helmet with horns, a tight red shirt that says “love rocks,” and a toy guitar. The fantasy only gets stranger when they leave the bedroom dressed in early medieval European outfits and start walking down the street with a unicorn. The video seems to return to reality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POPSCREEN: Mariah Carey | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

FIRST INTERMISSION: Despite an energetic first period, the two teams combine for only nine shots on target, with Cornell tallying one more than Harvard. But one dude in here has major game: the Zamboni driver, who rumbles onto the ice in reverse and wearing a Trojan-style helmet...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CRIMSON LIVE: Men's Hockey @ Cornell | 3/1/2008 | See Source »

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