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...unofficial mascot, Keggy the Keg, on the sideline with the real deal. The Big Green has to be playing drunk, right? A team can’t be this bad, can it?While I’m in a self-indulgent mood, let me bring up another quote of mine, this one from Week 2. Only this time, I wish to rescind it (for now at least): “Columbia sucks.”Prediction: Columbia 31, Dartmouth 16Last Week’s Record: 4-2Record to Date: 18-6—Staff writer Loren Amor...
...into murky tactics, for example, with its use of Barack Obama’s middle name, Hussein, as political ammunition. Appealing to the worst of voters’ prejudices, such tactics are particularly fiendish for their ability to degrade even those who speak out against them. A friend of mine, stalwart of the Republican information network that he is, regularly forwards to me chain letters that proclaim themselves revelations, bringing real Americans the news withheld by the sinister liberal media. Several of these letters have seized upon the apparently shocking fact that Senator Obama’s middle name...
...rest completely in their hands, it was the greed of many members of Wall Street that contributed to the destabilizing of the market. This veneration of dollars is not sustainable. And when a crash such as this one occurs, many are left feeling very empty. As one friend of mine observed, a strange sense of isolation has set in for her as she’s realized that she has spent her entire time at Harvard preparing for life as a banker—she has never thought of doing anything else. This is not like other professions. Writers...
...have 700 mole-man names much in the way that you had 700 hobo names in your first book. Can you please explain the mole-men? I have so many questions about them. Many people do, and many of them will go unanswered. Mole-men became an obsession of mine as I was writing the first book. I wrote some interesting facts and a motto for all 51 states. For Virginia, I said the motto was "The Old Dominion," which was very arrogant of Virginians, as the true Old Dominion was an empire of mole-men who lived underground...
...playing field for candidates. Voters lacking easy access to information are too easily swayed by candidates’ incumbency status, party affiliation, and spending on advertising, Nemeth said.“I think people should be elected on the basis of their qualifications and ideas, and a site like mine enables voters to see what those qualifications and ideas are,” she said.Nemeth, who studied computer science as a University of Michigan undergraduate, said she conceived Imagine Election a couple of years ago when she began receiving postcards about hometown candidates. But she didn?...