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...doesn’t always work. In the British election of 1992, Neil Kinnock ran a similar campaign and lost narrowly to a post-Thatcher Conservative Party which had been in power for 13 years. John Major, who won, succeeded in distancing himself from Mrs. Thatcher, who by then had become unpopular both inside and outside her party, particularly over the issue of greater ties with Europe. Similarly, John McCain has attempted to move away from the Bush administration...
Kerry M. Healy ‘82, former lieutenant governor of Massachusetts and senior adviser to W. Mitt Romney’s unsuccessful presidential campaign, spoke on behalf of John McCain while Steven Grossman, former national chairman of the Democratic National Committee, represented Barack Obama on issues ranging from Iran to the domestic politics of Israel...
...stop,” we see the beginnings of determination working in the very way Jolie holds herself. It’s a good thing Jolie’s performance is so solid, because she carries most of the weight of the film. The accompanying cast includes John Malkovich, who plays Gustav Briegleb, a Presbyterian reverend who has made it his life goal to expose the LAPD for the fraud it is, and Jeffery Donovan as the unscrupulous J.J. Jones, captain of the LAPD juvenile investigation unit. Despite their roots in a true story, both characters seem flat. Briegleb, with...
...eating it. I’ve gobbled my share of pigs’ trotters, chicken feet, and cow stomach, only to reach for seconds. I’ve nibbled pickled jellyfish and chomped on wild boar. Squeamishness, clearly, is not something I’ve been accused of. But John Barlow’s latest food travelogue, “Everything But the Squeal,” rarely fails to turn my stomach—and I suspect he’d take this as a compliment. “Squeal,” Barlow’s third food...
...John Legend has not yet lived up to his name as a “legend” in the R&B world, but he is certainly a favorite of some industry greats. His rise to stardom can be largely credited to collaborations with the best and brightest of the urban music scene, from his beginnings playing piano on Lauryn Hill’s “Everything is Everything,” to his signing with Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. Music label in 2003, to the multiple collabos that followed with that Chi-town superstar. His work...