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...facial-hair-growing competitions. (At last year's world championships, the hirsute Americans finished first in five out of 17 categories, including best freestyle mustache.) That loss of distinction, coupled with the fact that nearly two-thirds of women prefer their men clean-shaven, according to a Harris Interactive poll, was enough to stop Anthony Tokarchyk, 27, an entrepreneur who lives in Huntingdon Valley, Pa., from keeping his scruff of nearly a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Beard Brigade | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

Tell us again why the Ames straw poll deserves 10 times the attention from candidates that the entire California primary gets. Remind us why Concord has the candidates for a year and Colorado for an hour? Time to dust off those proposals for rationally paced, regional primaries, proposals that recur like clockwork every four years in the exhausted wake of another Super Tuesday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election Excess. | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

...back of the bus in recent days. And they are wrapped up in her age. She is a baby boomer, of a generation that has been notably obnoxious and unsuccessful in the public arena. Perhaps the most dreadful baby-boom political legacy has been the overconsulted, fanatically tactical, poll-driven campaign - and Clinton has suffered whenever she has emphasized tactics over substance. Her lame attempts to "go negative" on Obama have been almost entirely counterproductive. Her husband's attempts to paint Obama as a "race" candidate - his resort to the most toxic sort of old-fashioned politics - only reinforced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inspiration vs. Substance | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

...TIME poll reveals that 62% of Democrats want Clinton to put Obama on the ticket; 51% want Obama to return the favor if he is the nominee. The party's right brain and left brain, dancing together at last, right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton, Obama: Why Not Both? | 2/6/2008 | See Source »

...playing race and gender cards when she fell behind. To reverse all that and join forces with the Clintons would be seen as a huge betrayal of his most galvanizing argument-as well as his character-by many of his followers. The numbers back this up. In Time's poll, 58% of Clinton backers favor bringing Obama onto the ticket; nearly the same percentage (56%) of Obama supporters favor choosing someone else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton, Obama: Why Not Both? | 2/6/2008 | See Source »

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