Word: mike
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...agenda, stupid. Mike Murphy—the Republican strategist who ran John McCain’s 2000 presidential campaign—is famous for once advising a client to “make a charge and let the other guy spend a million dollars explaining it.” I cannot wait to see the Annenberg School of Communications study that follows this campaign, but I suspect it will show that the president’s political operation dictated the message of the day far more than Kerry’s. Unless bad international or economic news overshadowed the candidates...
Without Widman, junior Mike Lucas may see more time blocking for Dawson, and the Crimson will likely use more single-back formations with two tight ends or three wide receivers in running situations...
...breakfast during the Democratic Convention in July. A long line of other White House allies, including Karl Rove, Ken Mehlman, Treasury Secretary John Snow and Budget Director Josh Bolten, has also marched through the Dispatch's Third Street offices. Last month the President even invited Wolfe and Dispatch president Mike Curtin, along with a reporter, on Air Force One to discuss the issues...
...that the euro has exacerbated Europe's regional economic differences because of its one-size-fits-all monetary policy, with the European Central Bank setting the same interest rates for all. "In the short term, monetary policy is driving economies apart, not bringing them together," says London-based economist Mike Taylor of Merrill Lynch. A recovery is under way, but it's weak. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (O.E.C.D.) predicts that Euroland's economy will grow 2% this year, up from .4% growth in 2003 but well below the 3.4% expected for Britain and the 4%-plus predicted...
...Office's comedy of quiet desperation will probably need tweaking for America, where we prefer noisier desperation in our workplace satire. (A sublime example of that style is the movie Office Space, from Daniels' Hill co-producer Mike Judge.) But The Office finale isn't a downer; it offers the characters some hope and a chance at redemption--even David. At one point he shows up at Wernham Hogg, asking his ex-employees to go out for a drink--begging, really--in the mistaken belief that they love him. Only Tim accepts, to break the awkwardness--but also, perhaps, because...