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...Crimson marched the length of the field, the end result was never in doubt. Dawson would score. It was only a question of how long the Leopards would be able to hold...
With so much on the line, Bush started prepping this summer and has had occasional full-length dress rehearsals, but the pace picked up last weekend at his Crawford, Texas, ranch. New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg, who played Al Gore in the 2000 drill, stood in for Kerry, and admaker Mark McKinnon assumed the role of the first debate moderator. It all took place in a one-story building known as the Conference Center, where Bush practiced behind a lectern and aides flashed cue cards that told him how much time he had left, just as officials will...
...book succeeds because, unlike in real life, Jacobs (an Esquire editor and NPR contributor) confines his written observations on Encyclopaedia Britannica articles to jottings the length of entries in Schott's Original Miscellany. (Among the facts he highlights: the Bayer company invented heroin; toward the end of his life, Nathaniel Hawthorne constantly scribbled "64" on scraps of paper; René Descartes liked cross-eyed chicks.) Instead, he uses his book, which is organized by Encyclopaedia Britannica entries, to do what he has done best as a magazine writer: stunt journalism. The entry on "Vital Fluid" leads to a story about getting...
...they take the name Leon from the names of their father and paternal grandfather. But before the quartet shows off its Nashville-flavored tunes, Tennessee’s the Features takes the stage as the opening act. The psychedelic rock group recently saw the release of its debut full length, Exhibit A. 18+. Tickets $15. 7 p.m. Axis, 13 Lansdowne Street, Boston...
...democracy.  My favorite conversation was with a man who gave me a lovely, stirring, and totally unsolicited one-on-one doorstep oration about his father’s long and honorable career in public service for the state of Wisconsin.  He spoke eloquently and at length about his dad’s fights for union rights and transportation funding.  And then when he had finally finished I paused awkwardly, shifted the clipboard in my hands and asked “So… are you registered to vote...