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...course in the Middle East. They're all against open debates and new debate formats. They're all against impeaching [President George W.] Bush and [Vice President Dick] Cheney for their multiple high crimes and misdemeanors. And they're all against repealing the Taft Hartley anti-union law... One metaphor for [my] campaign could be the tugboat campaign, pushing candidates toward the harbor of the people and away from the harbor of giant corporations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nader Spoils for a Fight | 2/26/2008 | See Source »

...glorious, messy details. Of course, all the emotional hallmarks that make a Mountain Goats song recognizable are intact. In “Autoclave,” Darnielle’s predictable refrain is “my heart’s an autoclave,” a metaphor that gives the listener a pretty good idea of its writer’s ethos. Anyone willing to begin a phrase with “my heart is a” must be willing to dig wholeheartedly into the center of melodrama. However, the metaphor is ultimately destined for the unglamorous autoclave...

Author: By David S. Wallace, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Mountain Goats | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

...Everybody is struggling with meager salaries or pensions, while members of the ruling class enjoy enormous incomes and a lot of benefits. Everywhere one can feel the contempt that ordinary people nourish toward politicians in this mock democracy. The sight of the uncollected trash around Naples is a painful metaphor of the Italian mess. Alessandro Berrini, SAN DONATO MILANESE, ITALY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe's Muslims and Mistrust | 2/15/2008 | See Source »

...Everybody is struggling with meager salaries or pensions, while members of the ruling class enjoy enormous incomes and a lot of benefits. Everywhere one can feel the contempt that ordinary people nourish toward politicians in this mock democracy. The sight of the uncollected trash around Naples is a painful metaphor of the Italian mess. Alessandro Berrini San Donato Milanese, Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 2/15/2008 | See Source »

...Rush Limbaugh asking whether America wants to watch a woman aging in the Oval Office and faced a young guy yelling "Iron my shirt!" at a rally. (Not to mention: a male journalist writes about a woman presidential candidate--and of course he runs with the "soap opera" metaphor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Becoming Ms. Big | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

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