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...hated himself when he played poorly. At those times, or when injury stopped him surfing for a while, he could sulk with the best of them. Life after football will test him. He is gone before he was ready, leaving behind a game that will be the lesser for his absence...
...lesser seducers, Mr. Goldbury (Roy A. Kimmey ’09) and Lord Dramaleigh (Morris), are just as likeable. Initially frustrated in their efforts to win the absurdly reserved hands of Princess Nekaya (Anna M. Resnick ’09) and Princess Kalyba (Megan M. Savage ’10), Goldbury and Dramaleigh burst into song with “Then I may sing and play.” The reason you should sleep with us, they tell the princesses, is because that’s what any proper English woman would...
Huckabee is a political inconvenience, a destroyer of stereotypes. He is probably best known as the fellow who lost 100 lbs. in a year, and made living well through exercise and good nutrition one of his signature issues as Governor. But the real significance of Huckabee--and, to a lesser extent, Brownback--is that he represents the introduction of a new constituency into the political process: "Second Commandment" Christians, those more interested in salvation than damnation, people like the California pastor Rick Warren, author of The Purpose Driven Life. Huckabee says, "Our church in Little Rock is very similar...
...that allows candidates time to actually meet with members of the voting public, voters make less informed decisions, forced to rely on media soundbites instead of actual engagement with nominees. A drawn-out primary schedule also tempers disparities between campaigns’ war chests. With the old system, a lesser-known candidate had time to build momentum in the first primaries and translate that momentum into donations that would allow them to be competitive in larger states. Candidates were also forced to spend time in smaller, bellwether states convincing voters of their worthiness. For example, despite setbacks in early primaries...
...fault, and generally would back subordinates rather than sack them, since he would view that as tantamount to a rebuke of his own stewardship. He applied this kind of pre-emptive backing to big mistakes - like the poor execution of the military's occupation of Iraq - and lesser ones too, like the Abu Ghraib prison scandal...