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...campaign is looking for a running mate who will be relatively youthful. McCain has said that he is aware of the "enhanced importance" of a vice presidential pick, because of his own age. McCain adviser Charlie Black has gone even further, saying a younger pick could minimize the age issue in much the same way the selection of George H. W. Bush minimized the age issue for Ronald Reagan...
...certainly would not have asked for stories on "concentration camps." When I'm abroad these days and have to go without my newspaper, I often turn to the most e-mailed stories on news websites, which are generally opinion pieces (rather than news stories), from which I cherry-pick arguments or facts that comport with my pre-existing views. Reading this way, I rarely stray from the familiar and soothing...
...Hollywood, Warren Cowan's considerable influence was felt mainly behind the silver screen. As a publicist to the stars during a career spanning more than 60 years, he represented such Tinseltown titans as Judy Garland, Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, Ronald Reagan, Frank Sinatra and Elizabeth Taylor. When asked to pick his favorite client from among the list of luminaries, Cowan famously replied, "The next...
...College should mandate that professors and teaching fellows return all final exams and final papers that are handed in at the end of the year. TFs should be required to communicates grades and comments on all papers and projects to students, whether by making it possible for students to pick them up before the end of finals period, by e-mail, or by snail mail. Since written comments are often also important feedback, all work that is not directly returned to students should be preserved over the summer so students can see it when they get back in the fall...
...citizens to own them). And when recent surveys show that even a majority of Miami Cubans, of all people, favor relaxing the restrictions - in an FIU poll 55% backed unlimited travel to Cuba - it's probably time for U.S. politicians to drop the one-string embargo banjo and pick up a new instrument for effecting change across the Florida Straits...