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Dean has plenty of doubters. "They've very deftly and cleverly caught a wave here, and they're surfing it pretty smart," says Kerry campaign manager Jim Jordan. As for the Internet-driven engine of the Dean insurgency: "It's like watching my 13-year-old daughter instant-messaging," Jordan says. "It's not particularly about politics and policy. It's almost like a reality show...
...Groucho's surrealism, Fields' misanthropy, Chaplin's soul, not to mention that element of the grotesque they all shared. Dapper and a trifle distant in his suit and tie, he also lacked their patience in building and extending gag sequences. Typical American that he was, he always wanted the instant gratification of the big boff...
...narrow victory, Davis promptly announced an astonishing state budget deficit of $38 billion. This wasn't entirely his fault-the recession had caused capital-gains tax receipts to plummet from $17 billion to $4 billion-but Davis had not been honest about the looming disaster during the campaign, and instant karma got him in the form of Darrell Issa, a millionaire paleo-conservative Congressman who bankrolled the successful recall petition drive...
...memory of the 18 soldiers who were killed in the 1993 mission to stabilize Somalia. General Richard B. Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a congressional hearing last week that Liberia "is not a pretty situation, and it's not going to give way to any instant...
CAMBRIDGE—Last Sunday morning, my alarm went off at 8 a.m. Without thinking twice, I sprang out of bed, turned the alarm off and plugged in the electric kettle to make instant coffee. In five minutes, I was (slightly) buzzed, a little disoriented and very excited. Was this momentary insanity, or even the result of a bad nightmare...