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...think a lot of our supporters in the end believed that if they spent one less hour not working, [Obama] might not win... and there was some truth to that,” he said...
...window, I squint so hard that I can’t tell if it’s actually snowing or just really snowy, and how much of the whiteness is just sun.All I remember from last night is brushing my teeth in this bathroom for a full hour, molars jagged with chewed-up Doritos, and four or five other guys all huddled around too, slumped in the three-part corners where two walls meet the floor. We’d talked about the fathomless ocean of history in sentences that ranged from two to a hundred words long.Then we must...
Come June, hordes of Harvard students and recent graduates will descend upon New York City. Their reasons for settling there will vary widely. Those ambitious pre-bankers who hope to land that coveted position at [insert financial firm with head above water here] will gleefully devote 90-hour weeks to their firms, returning to their apartments only to shower and sleeping under their desks for approximately 90 minutes per 24 hours. Budding musicians and aspiring journalists will set up camp in Williamsburg or at NYU housing, hoping to work up enough hipster cred to create a cleverly named tumblr that...
...Well, I think for everyone who worked on the campaign–from me down to the floor organizer–it was just relentless. You’re working 16-18 hour days easily. You have a lot of stuff flying at you. And so you basically are trying to make sure that every day you stay on track, you have something that you’re trying to accomplish, and that you’re making progress towards that. But you have interferences all day long: opponents attack you, the press may have some new investigative story, there...
...home that morning because I had a three-hour graduate evening seminar on poetry and so I was preparing for that. I had the television on. I've done that since 9/11 just to see if things were going ok. Then a map of Virginia came up with Blacksburg highlighted ... I think, to be honest, I'm still reacting to it in many ways. I'll be reacting to it the rest of my life...