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...sound of the Olympic games for me has always been John Williams' Olympic Fanfare and Theme. But since this spring those strains have been replaced by the clack and crumble of workmen with pickaxes leveling a wall outside my window at dawn...
Meanwhile, Bush's cleanup campaign is scrambling the assumptions of both Obama and John McCain. Bush's endorsement on July 18 of a "horizon" for withdrawal from Iraq has isolated McCain, who once said he favored a 100-year presence there. And so he backpedaled, calling a 16-month withdrawal plan supported by Iraq's Prime Minister a "pretty good" timetable. Bush's new tactics may complicate the calculations of Obama as well. Even a symbolic troop drawdown in Iraq before the election could depress antiwar sentiment among Obama's most loyal voters. Obama knows that as troops are withdrawn...
...JOHN WATERS working on Hairspray sequel...
...several decades in the middle of the 20th century, internationally renowned architects such as Richard Neutra and John Lautner--who is currently the subject of a retrospective at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles--created audacious buildings in Palm Springs that helped revolutionize the way Americans lived and played. Out went stuffy Victorian parlors; in came sleek, glass-walled structures that blurred the line between indoors and out. The bulk of what these architects designed was residential, which meant the only way to see one of the buildings back then was to have Frank Sinatra invite you over for drinks...
...lame-duck Administration of an unpopular President. What's not at all certain, though, is whether it's all going to work - to revive housing, prevent recession and avert a future mortgage bailout of epic, trillion-dollar proportions. The candidates for President are watching closely: both Barack Obama and John McCain have generally endorsed Paulson's actions, but it's clear that - with Obama's candidacy propelled in part by economic discontent - McCain has a greater stake in the current Administration's success. Either way, the next President's options will be determined in large part by what Paulson...