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Then came the highlight of Ko’s tournament, a hard-fought match against Boise State qualifier Pichitta Thongdach. The Crimson player emerged victorious in the end by a score of 6-1, 7-6 (5). Thongdach had in the first round defeated a good friend of Ko’s, Monica Dancevic of Georgia, so Ko knew what was coming and took advantage of it to jump out to an early lead...
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...reason. And his electoral success in 2004 explains how ‘narrative’ has hijacked the race in 2008. But it seems this time the stakes have been raised for the candidates. Beyond simply seeming like ‘authentic Americans’, they also have to highlight their encounters with regular-folk adversities and hardships; these aspects of their biographies have come to supersede all foreign affairs experience or a top-flight education.Thus, in a time when the economy is unraveling, international support is dissolving, and the average American is struggling to pay the bills, it seems...
...Highlight Reel: 1. On Otis, the gruff Times owner: "The riots, were, he firmly believed, only the opening salvo in a war that would not be over until the unions were driven out of Los Angeles. Compromise would be surrender. Rather than negotiate, he prepared for new battles. He now called himself "General." He christened his sprawling home "The Bivouac." He mounted a cannon on the hood of his limousine and made sure his chauffeur was prepared to repel, at his command, any enemy attacks. He modeled the paper's new printing plant on a fanciful vision of an impregnable...
...Finally, the savvy viewer should remember that any moment that looks too perfect to be true probably isn't. I once worked on a campaign in which we made a big show of opening our secret debate-prep session to reporters. The highlight was the part when the candidate dramatically rejected the lame, scripted debate answers we staffers had offered up, vowing instead to just tell it like...