Word: loudnesses
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...just one second, everything went from a loud, happy, wonderful moment to total silence. Every brain, I guess, was working like a computer trying to realize what had happened," he says. Then came the screaming and crying. People had been badly hurt in the fall, and the tilt of the ship made it extremely difficult to move...
Anyway, the message was sent loud and clear throughout that day and certainly looked like it had been received by the time Tuesday night came around. The resulting Iowa rally had a more muted feel than many expected, suggesting at the very least that Team Obama heard the complaint - or have bought the female-voter-threat idea enough not to take chances. As TIME noted this week, some of the phrases Obama used that night were notably similar to suggestions made by of Clinton backers who were trying to repair the breach...
...Puerto Rico, that means schlepping through caminatas, a kind of political parade that requires candidates to walk through neighborhoods, and hiring the right tumbacocos, trucks loaded with giant speakers that blast campaign propaganda loud enough to knock coconuts out of trees, which is how they got their name. It means producing official campaign salsa and reggaeton songs; Clinton seems particularly proud of her endorsement from salsa legend Willie Colon. "It's never dull," says Metro San Juan magazine editor Philipe Schoene Roura, author of an upcoming book about Puerto Rico politics. "It's not the kind of politics that Americans...
...husband's roof raisers. He's all about the promise; she's more about the problem. It's not just that she says times are hard and "we're not where we need to be"; with that, the vast majority of the country agrees. She goes further, worrying out loud about the country's lack of fairness, the corrosive cynicism of its citizens and how Americans "spend more time talking about what we can't do, what won't work, what can't change" than about what is possible. "The challenges that we are really facing have very little...
...Kelly is. That's perhaps why the rapper Lil' Kim traded her revealing bodices for more respectable gear by designers such as Marc Jacobs during her 2005 perjury trial. Kelly perhaps didn't get the memo: On the first day of his jury's selection, he wore a loud purple suit. On Tuesday, he struck a comparatively muted tone, sporting a blue pinstriped suit, with a preppy blue-and-orange striped tie. On Wednesday, he wore a light-brown pinstriped suit, a white shirt and a yellow tie with dots of an undeterminable color. The only constant...