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...Mind over Political Matter Finally someone has recognized why we elect our Presidents based on primitive emotions and not reasoned discourse [Oct. 20]. After 50 years of voting for both Democratic and Republican Presidents, in 2004 I watched dumbfounded as Ohio, which had suffered the loss of tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs, voted Bush back into office to pursue four more years of vanity, Constitution-shredding and a high-school-level understanding of geopolitics. It was then that I realized that presidential elections are more about biology than intellect. All Karl Rove had to do was present George...
...nation's eyes were on her loss not because it was especially horrific--in a spate of shootings this summer, Chicago had seen plenty of tragedy. It was because her story was attached to another that had enthralled America. Her sister Jennifer is not just famous; she is an emblem of pop-cultural redemption, an American Idol favorite who was eliminated in the finals but went on to greater triumph with an Oscar-winning role in the movie Dreamgirls. She had transcended her backstory and her roots as a reality star to become a real...
...confronted once again with the harsh realities of life.Halloween, like college, is a chance to do regrettable things without actually having to regret them.There is no such free pass in Ivy League football.With just seven games of conference play, each Saturday brings a sense of urgency, each win or loss a sense of finality.We approach the home stretch of the season, and the race for first place in the Ancient Eight is tightening to suffocating proportions.So while the rest of us get Sweet n’ Nasty, visit Heaven and Hell, and then return to school not much changed...
...deja vu all over again.Having been the football beat writer for the past three years, I’ve pretty much seen it all. From the gut-wrenching 22-13 loss two years ago at Penn when Clifton Dawson ’07 broke the Ivy League’s all-time rushing record to last year’s 37-6 drubbing of Yale to run the table and regain the Ivy title, no one game has been exactly alike.And yet, just a few minutes into the game last Saturday, I found myself wondering if my second trip...
...sound bites. As Peggy Noonan wrote in The Wall Street Journal, “She does not speak seriously but attempts to excite sensation.” As her interviews with Charles Gibson and Katie Couric have shown, when pressed beyond the clever quip she is at a loss for words. But, like the news media loop, she is a worshipful student of the inflammatory sentence (i.e., the suggestion that Barack Obama has been “palling around with terrorists” or wants to “experiment with socialism”) certain to seize the public?...