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...came, this one was going well and the President, who hovered close enough to the television to get static cling, was enjoying it. His strategist Karl Rove was perched on the edge of an armchair, double-thumbing e-mail messages into his Blackberry when the call came in from Lloyd Smith, manager of Jim Talent's campaign against Senator Jean Carnahan in Missouri. Smith said Talent was performing well enough in the Democratic strongholds of St. Louis and Kansas City to guarantee victory. "You're the man!" Rove bellowed back into his cell phone. Then he gave the President...
...education programs encouraged condom use, has been quietly recasting its position on abstinence. The agency pulled from its website this summer a feature called Programs that Work, which had touted the success of eight condom-based sex-ed curriculums. Now the agency is focusing on abstinence-only programs. Says Lloyd Kolbe, director of the CDC's division of adolescent and school health and an original author of the condom feature: "It was a very limited approach...
Over the past century, the clean lines of modern architecture have been making their way fitfully into churches. In a way they have been lending their validity to religion, at least in the eyes of secularized society. Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen and Louis Kahn all designed great and very spare modern churches. The sole foray into church design by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the great founding master of modernism, was a nondenominational chapel in brick, steel and glass built in 1952 on the campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology. To put it mildly, it's a parsimonious...
...Chicks called in Maines' dad, steel-guitar legend Lloyd Maines, to produce the tracks, and then, just to push Sony to DefCon 1, they shopped the material to other record companies. "We came very close to signing with another label," says Maguire with a sly grin. "I think that's when they realized, 'These girls are serious.'" Sure enough, Sony and the Dixie Chicks announced a new agreement in July. No one will talk details, but the Chicks now record under their own Sony subsidiary, Wide Open Records, and it is widely believed they received a $20 million signing advance...
WASHINGTON—Frank Lloyd Wright once said, “TV is chewing gum for the eyes.” Well, this summer, I have finally discovered what that means...