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...innocently surfing the Web. Clicking on stuff. Sports scores, news stories. You know, normal things. Then it starts. A fusillade of electronic drums. A doinky synthesizer beat. A dude with a pompadour and a lot of sincerity. He's dancing--badly. He is 1980s pop star Rick Astley, and you have been RICKROLLED...
...Work, Woo and Win the Referees McCain's willingness to parry and thrust with the press is already the stuff of campaign legend. And if the candidate has his way, the legend will only grow. "He is the best earned media candidate I think in history," Rick Davis, the campaign manager, recently told The New York Times. (Earned media is another way of saying free media, or anything a campaign doesn't pay for.) "And so we will try to use that advantage." In recent weeks, the campaign has relaunched what advisers call the "Straight Talk Express," a time when...
Neil Diamond Home Before Dark; out now Forty years in, and his songs still teeter on grievance and end in self-pity. At least they're not so corny. Producer Rick Rubin adds discipline where Diamond needs it, keeping the arrangements simple and the choruses from getting too show-bizzy. What's left is miraculously both quietly compelling and recognizably Neil Diamond...
...rough approximation of a hip, Los Angeles nightclub, with neon lights, lots of vodka and nubile ladies who silently walked around dressed in form-fitting airline stewardess costumes. One wall of the main room had a series of stairs that led to the ceiling, at the top of which Rick Davis, the campaign manager for John McCain, sat down to appraise the crowd. The Jonas Brothers, still looking lost and worried, showed up with their hulking bodyguard, while CIA director Michael Hayden, who is responsible for sending secret forces to do nasty things in distant countries, mingled with no apparent...
...would be particularly troublesome if Moqtada al-Sadr declared an open war," said Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch, the commander of U.S. forces in southern Iraq. "I hope that doesn't happen...