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...ideas. Everything on the table." He was alluding to the party's recent tendency toward mingy, small- bore campaigns. In 2002, many Democratic consultants advised their candidates not to dispute the President on his tax cuts and plans for war in Iraq-and limited the campaign to ho-hum topics like prescription-drug plans and blaming Bush for the economic downturn without offering a remedy. As a result, the Democrats lost ground in the House and control of the Senate; and they gave up still more seats in John Kerry's wishy-washy 2004 presidential run. This time the model...
...might take shape. Large segments of the population remain unconvinced, which does not signal, as many believe, that not enough campaigning for a political Europe has been done. Rather, the proponents of integration must reexamine their project to understand why so many are frightened and uninvolved. The continuous lively hum in Brussels is deceptive as long as the philosophical and political foundations of the EU are weak. As I leave the Parliament and head home, the location’s allure gradually fades and I wonder whether a truly European politics will ever be possible. In the wake...
...believers. But the history of contact is brief enough that the first local person to fly in a plane - a young woman sent because the chiefs were suspicious of the strange craft - is still alive. The world remains quieter here, the green-leafed silence interrupted perhaps by the crepuscular hum of insects, or the morning call of the cone shell, blown at this time of year, when circumcision rituals are taking place...
SOME PEOPLE OVER THE YEARS HAVE CRITICIZED YOUR SONGS FOR NOT BEING HUMMABLE. CAN YOU HUM THEM...
...Attention...GO.” Instead of the normal SWOOSH of eight blades releasing and the smooth hum of the slides working quickly back up the tracks, I heard a distinct CRASH and then a THUNK. From that sound, I knew, instinctively, that the race was over. There is no breakage rule at Henley. In domestic regattas, if something breaks within the first 150 meters, the race is restarted. Not so across the pond. If anything goes wrong, as it did, our regatta is over...