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...President? Have you somehow missed his verbal blunders or the fact that he was a C student? It’s not like he was the CEO of a corporation, or the governor of one of the largest states in the nation. Proposed response to phase one: smile and nod. Come on, you don’t want to give yourself away as an idiot...
...better job dealing with taxes than the G.O.P., which got 40% on that score. Tax policy was an extremely or very important voting issue to 70% of respondents. On managing government spending, 46% of registered voters said Democrats were to be preferred over Republicans, who got the nod of 31% of those surveyed. Overall, Democrats came out ahead in five of the seven areas TIME polled. On ?standing up to lobbyists and special interests? they prevailed 41% to 23% and on ?understanding the needs of people like yourself? they...
...When Aardman made Chicken Run, its first film sponsored by DreamWorks, Park and Lord talked about the visits Jeffrey Katzenberg, DreamWorks' animation chief, made to Bristol. Katzenberg would make his points, at an American force and volume, then Park and Lord would nod politely and continue doing what they wanted. Katzenberg basically bought the right to be ignored graciously...
...After all, you're the idiot who doesn't know where Kazakhstan is or if it's the kind of place where, as Borat claims, there's a "Running of the Jews." And more important, you're the idiot who believes so much in cultural relativism that you'll nod politely when a guy tells you that in his country they keep developmentally disabled people in cages. Or, worse yet, you're the person who tells him it's not a bad idea...
...Harvard downed Holy Cross and Princeton. The work of junior forward Matt Hoff played a key role in making the magic happen this time around. For his two goals—one a game winner—and an assist, Hoff earned the Ivy League Player of the Week nod a week after sophomore Mike Fucito was given the same title. The biggest strike Hoff had was his goal against the Crusaders off a volley in the 53rd minute to make it 3-0 Harvard. That spread proved all that the Crimson would need in the 5-2 victory, making...