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Nothing is weirder than Sacred Harp. Its favored subject matter--the pilgrim, the grave, Christ's blood--is stark; its style--severe fourths and otherworldly open fifths--has been obsolete for more than a century. Its notation, in which triangles, circles and squares indicate pitch, looks like cuneiform. Yet it exudes power and integrity. Five people sound like a choir; a dozen like a hundred. It is one of the most democratic choral forms: no audience, no permanent conductor--just people addressing one another...
...Edwards pushed as hard as he could ahead of the New Hampshire primary, holding more than 20 events in four days to make his populist pitch that he is the only genuine "change" candidate in the race. But after a surprise second-place showing in the Iowa caucuses, the former North Carolina Senator failed to parlay that momentum into a stronger-than-expected showing in the New Hampshire primary. Edwards came in third place, garnering around 17% of the vote behind Hillary Clinton's 39% and Barack Obama's 37%. "Up until now one half of 1% of the country...
...recently chose to refocus its public statements not on Romney's fellow aspirants, but on Barack Obama. "I think Obama's success has focused the race, whether he wins here tonight, whether he wins the nomination or not, and that's to our advantage," says Castellanos. However, their new pitch hinges on basking in the reflected glow of his shiny message of change - "With Barack Obama, the people of Iowa have shown they want change," is now a standard line in Romney's stump speech - while also painting him as a dangerous radical: "The nation wants us to move forward...
...detention center on the far side of the airport below. From around 5,000 feet in the air, just past dusk, it is one of the brightest structures anywhere in sight. We land, taxi, deplane and spill out into the darkness. The highway at night is empty, wide and pitch-black. After nearly five years it is still unsecured, still dubbed the "highway of death." In some cases checkpoints are every couple of hundred yards. Wide boulevards where children once played soccer have been made narrow and ugly. Everyone carries a gun. Many carry...
...that it can seem as if all the candidates have momentum, whether they actually do or not. Joe Biden has been drawing crowds of several hundred wherever he goes - unprecedented for Biden, and in most years a good omen. But since Democratic excitement is running at such a high pitch this year, it probably means far less this time around. Obama's crowds have been topping 2,000 in the last few days. His closing argument has turned on the question of who voters trust to make change. As he said on Wednesday, "The question for those...