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...many of us, she does not hesitate to tell P.D. exactly when he's being ridiculous. Though at times this causes her to slip from her place of authority, I frankly prefer it and am glad she hasn't lost her youthful enthusiasm and sense of humor. If I lose mine three years out of school, please remind...
...Turkey would not go out so meekly. Or humbly. "We didn't deserve to lose," said defender Gökhan Zan. "If we look at the statistics we had more possession and more shots on goal, but it wasn't much of a help." It rarely is against Germany. Turkey coach Fatih Terim must now know what it feels like to manage a weekend amateur side, when the manager's most pressing issue often is: Will we be 11 today? Having lost four players to suspension - and don't get me started on the inconsistent refereeing - and five others...
...week unfurled from there in ways that only solidified the growing sense that the election is quickly becoming Obama's to lose. A series of national polls suggested that Obama's lead over McCain was expanding. Two of them - one by Newsweek, the other by the Los Angeles Times - showed his lead jumping to double-digits. The McCain campaign quickly - and rightly - criticized the polls' methodology, claiming each over-sampled self-identified Democrats. Other polls, like those by Gallup, Rasmussen and Time, suggest a narrower race. But the Obama folks capitalized on the perception shift by dispatching campaign manager David...
Obama's no fool. He may not believe that things like flag pins should matter politically, but he knows the difference between should and does. Since Vietnam, the ability to associate oneself with patriotic symbols has often been the difference between Democrats who win and Democrats who lose. Why couldn't George McGovern buy a white working-class vote in 1972? Partly, as the great campaign chronicler Theodore White noted, because virtually every member of Richard Nixon's Cabinet wore a flag lapel button, and no one in McGovern's entourage did. Michael Dukakis lost in 1988 because as governor...
...lose sleep at night wondering whether we are intelligent enough to figure out the universe. I don't know...