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To probe for this essence, officers now pore over transcripts, parse teacher recommendations and consult regularly with high school guidance counselors. Then they gather for closed-door deliberations that range from the celebratory (a budding feminist poet is crowned "the next Anne Sexton") to the snippy ("Her thank-you note...
So a squad of poor, hapless reporters and analysts had to simultaneously parse and stall, doing neither well, as their home offices politely drilled them to skim the damn thing and cut to the chase. Is Gore dead? Will there be a recount? Will I have to work on Christmas...
America's chat culture, with its false intimacy and scripted spontaneity, often gives the candidates just one more facile disguise. If the ability to emote on Oprah is the standard for the presidency, then 90% of the country is qualified. From Oprah you can learn that the best gift Bush...
So where's the rally? Well, it's a complicated day (half-day, really - the bell tolls at 1 for the holiday), the last day of the second quarter. Some fund managers are dressing up their portfolios with glamour stocks (which is why NASDAQ was on the rise), others are...
Over last weekend, after a Puerto Rican Day parade, roving gangs of young men ran wild in New York's Central Park, molesting and sexually assaulting dozens of women. I have had long discussions with friends about the gangs' motives. Lust? Hatred of women? Warrior machismo? Drunkenness? A dynamic form...