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...will take much more than a motivated President to pass McCain-Feingold. Its enemies are legion and passionate and constitute one of the most peculiar assemblies ever to conspire in Washington. As a cause, killing the bill unites the Christian Coalition with the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Right to Life Committee with the National Education Association. "We don't agree with the A.C.L.U. on very much, but we're going to work very closely on these issues," says Douglas Johnson, legislative director of the N.R.L.C...
Still, the pervasiveness of a cappella at Harvard, the existence of a veritable a cappella culture, has fascinated me since I got here. So I started to dig. I scourged the depths of the a cappella world in search of some explanation to the peculiar phenomenon, some understanding of what makes a cappella tick. Eventually I found out about the complexity of scripting an a cappella performance, the countless hours spent on things like choreography and "patter." I found out about the dual role of the annual Freshman Jam as both an initiation of a new audience...
...there's an exception to every rule. Consider Jimmy Carter after he discovered malaise. Consider George Bush after the economy slipped. Consider Bob Dole. And, by the way, it is the economy, stupid. People vote their ATM cards and money-market accounts. Other lessons, for good or for bad, peculiar to this campaign...
...talking to Savero Mancini, a man I've got to assume is not one of the tribal elders. Before I can get to my questions, he's unloading facts on me left and right: 170,000 square feet; 2,600 slots, etc. Then he starts into more peculiar terrain. "The day-care program is fully licensed," he explains, "with very tight security...There's only...
...Homeric audiences had presumably heard of them too. For all its narrative speed, the Odyssey is remarkable in the way it resists modern notions of suspense. The question is not what will happen next but how thoroughly the bard recounts the particulars of every scene. Fagles' translation captures this peculiar quality perfectly. Late in the story Odysseus is back in Ithaca; he has revealed his identity to Telemachus and two loyal servants and challenged the hundred or so of Penelope's suitors to a fight to the death. All hell is about to break loose, and yet Homer pauses...