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...Marshal Cohen of NPD Group says two factors are pushing the market up: parents are expressing their own status by outfitting their kids, and today's kids, raised in a culture in which tweens dream of dressing like the fashionistas on Gossip Girl, are more clothes-conscious than ever and influence their parents' purchasing decisions. "As early as age 6, kids are getting more and more involved in choosing the products, including what they wear," says Cohen. "And the fact that you can't tell them what to wear is really driving the market...
...Both campaigns are stoking this fire - and worrying at the same time about what this could do to them in the fall. They ought to be concerned: Keep this up and neither candidate may be able to marshal the votes from the various corners of the Democratic coalition that he or she will need in the fall. As pollster Andrew Kohut has noted, a party which found that it had at least two candidates who were seen as widely "acceptable" to its various factions just a few weeks ago could soon find that happy consensus has evaporated...
John McCain's town-hall meetings in New Hampshire the weekend before he won the primary were packed--a fire marshal had to keep overflow people from entering one of them--and not with conservatives. At a school in Salem, the Republican fielded question after question from his left. What would he do to promote gun control? How would he fight global warming? How could he justify not raising taxes? More than an hour into the event, a woman got up and complained about liberal smear artists. She was the first questioner who was obviously a Republican...
...bang on the restaurant's front window. "What do you need?" a Huckabee aide writes out on a piece of paper, unable to hear us. TO GET IN! He understands, but can't help. "Fire marshal says no capacity," he writes back on his notepad. So we are left to stand in the street, amid the unending din. Even MSNBC's Chris Matthews, with his shimmering corn-husk blond hair, cannot gain entrance. Huckabee's own son, David, is not even going...
...this ridiculous amount of energy, and it’s because he’s so charismatic,” says Malcolm G. Campbell ’10, a pianist who plays with Miller. It’s this stage presence that’s made Miller a class marshal and a well-known figure in Moral Reasoning 22, “Justice” where he openly debates Professor Michael J. Sandel. Bryan C. Barnhill ’08, a blockmate, says, “Marcus likes to be a part of things from beginning to end. He even...