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...case against calm in Demworld begins with the idea that Obama isn't guaranteed the White House just because the fundamentals tilt his way. Whatever the mood, Democratic veterans warn, campaigns matter. And McCain's campaign has been much more aggressive about trying to define the debate and seize news cycles; when MSNBC's Joe Scarborough was asked during the initial lipstick-on-a-pig spat what the media would talk about in two days, he replied, "Whatever the McCain campaign wants us to talk about, because the McCain campaign is assertive." The media have dutifully fact-checked the McCain...
...have some idea what it was that he couldn't face. Since his death, Wallace's family has stated that he was chronically depressed. He had been taking medication for his condition for 20 years and had occasionally been hospitalized. "Everything had been tried," his father said, "and he just couldn't stand it anymore...
...homes, homelessness and what it means to be an outsider. In several instances in the novel, the ownership or loss of home and property opens the way for events of crucial emotional significance. "Home is where one starts from," wrote T.S. Eliot. But Roy's novel upends that idea with infinitely sympathetic elegance: What if home is something that you make rather than what you are given...
...secondi, and dolci—and I was to shadow the chef’s girlfriend Alessandra on sweets. Working 14 hours a day, six days a week, in a kitchen that spoke exclusively Italian, I started to question why I ever thought this apprenticeship had been a good idea. And when Alessandra switched to reception on the third night, leaving me solely responsible for the desserts, I started to question why they ever thought it was a good idea. Maybe cooking with my mother would have been enough. Maybe I didn’t have to wake up every...
Make no mistake; refusing a Harvard education to private-school students is a radical idea. Still, Harvard should ponder such a drastic measure, not as an affront to private schools but as a promotion of public education...