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...President, Poppy is depicted as having the strength to use U.S. military might to push Iraqi troops out of Kuwait and the wisdom - not the weakness - to stop short of Baghdad. Stone seems to admire him more than any other President he's depicted. (In JFK, Kennedy was a hallowed ghost figure.) His Bush Sr. might be a Lyndon Johnson who somehow got the country in and out of Vietnam with a win and few U.S. casualties. This 41 - this war hero, this fearless leader - could never have been impersonated on Saturday Night Live by Dana Carvey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oliver Stone's Verdict on George W. | 10/13/2008 | See Source »

...Palin's natural resource commissioner, Tom Irwin, said the governor didn't push the Sempra option with DOE because "it never came up in discussions that there was a competing market or a competing desire." But she didn't raise the idea, either, he said. The volumes of gas were so small, it didn't seem worthy of consideration. He said Palin has focused on a bigger payoff: construction of a 1700 mile pipeline to the lower 48 that could catalyze gas production on Alaska's North Slope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Palin's Blown Opportunity on Energy Independence | 10/12/2008 | See Source »

Klemperer said the recent push to hire more young faculty members has had “very positive” effects in his FAS department, chemistry...

Author: By Mac Mcanulty, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Ranks on AARP Employer List | 10/10/2008 | See Source »

...dull as the video’s gray hues. What’s more, between offers of breakfast in bed and being forced into sexual relations, he finds time to serenade the viewer while playing his invisible piano. Conversely, the lingerie-donning video vixen typifies the average male: she pushes, she shoves, she commands, and she swims through a fish tank. Confused much? Well, fear not. Usher concludes the video by whispering the affirmation, “Stay tuned / For part two / You been me / And I been you / But we gon’ switch / This thing back...

Author: By Shereen P. Asmat, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: Usher | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...Samson told me that stricter regulations would simply push egg producers out of state, hurting local business while enlarging the carbon footprint of importing eggs into California...

Author: By Lewis E. Bollard | Title: Yes on Two | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

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