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Between Clinton and Obama, the differences are of degree and style. Clinton has offered more specifics, particularly on health care. For Obama, wonky proposals obviously aren't the core of his appeal--although he has been more explicit than Clinton about raising taxes on the rich. Both voted against the Central American Free Trade Agreement in 2005, but neither is what you'd call an anti-free-trade activist. Clinton, it appears, would be likelier to enter the White House with big legislative proposals ready to roll. Obama might be better at forging the compromises needed to turn them into...
...it—though, at times, Kennedy exposes her narrative manipulations, clustering beloved ones’ deaths suspiciously close together or violating the mind’s logic by planting too-linear sequences of thought in Day’s brain.Virtually flawless, however, is Kennedy’s rich language and the even richer character who takes life from it. Kennedy writes like a smoother T.C. Boyle, her Britishisms landing softer on the ear than the American slang Boyle bandies about. She has his wit, his lyrical vision, and his ability to slice keenly with language, to be precise...
...unknown slain stomped deep into mass graves, Faust invests her subjects with significance, granting the soldiers a Good Death a century after their first. Faust’s humor emerges subtly, the finest example coming when she turns her attention to the fashion of mourning. Women at home bought rich black silks and velvets to mark the socially-required mourning that could last up to two and a half years. At one store in Philadelphia women could purchase black fabrics of every design in July 1863—which was, Faust devilishly adds, “just in time...
...Even with a steady influx of new members, smaller magazines can face dissolution for reasons beyond human factors. All of them have in recent history dealt with difficulties threatening their livelihood. Most small publications don’t have rich alumni, making it difficult to solve financial dilemmas such as: from where do we get money? And, later on: from where do we get more money...
...main thing I am focusing on for the next semester at least is getting people to advertise with us,” says Rich S. Beck ’09, a Crimson arts editor and editor-in-chief of Cinematic. “It’s hard to get started, when you bring them [the advertisers] an issue with no ads in it. We need to convince them that we are going to be around.” In order to stay competitive, Cinematic sells advertisements on its back cover for half as much as The Advocate...