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...reader looking for nuggets of gossip about America's latest political rock star won't be disappointed. We learn that Sarah shot her first rabbit at age ten; that she shared a room with her two sisters that "was unheated except for a wood stove"; and that one Halloween, she dressed as a pregnant Jane Fonda. But there is also plenty to pore over about Palin as an Alaskan politico, including an analysis of her controversial decision, soon after becoming mayor of Wasilla, to fire all of its incumbent municipal department heads. In fact, the author includes so much about...
...Fucito said. “The first week I struggled a bit, but I’m feeling better now.” However, junior Kwaku Nyamekye continues to be hampered by an ankle injury. Nyamekye, who sat out most of the Vermont game, was a rock at the back last year for Harvard but may be moved to striker or midfield. “It depends on where he can affect the game most,” coach Jamie Clark said of where he might play Nyamekye once he returns to full fitness. Senior co-captain Luke Sager appreciates...
...accident that Bill Clinton tried to pigeonhole Obama in the primaries as another Jesse Jackson, or that Michelle Obama introduced her family at the convention as a new version of the Cosbys (or the Bradys). Obama's opponents want him to look niche, like BET or Chris Rock or the NBA; his challenge is to prove that he's also attractive to the ABC and Dane Cook and MLB crowds. During the primaries, Joe Biden took flak for his dopey description of Obama as "the first mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking...
...author of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs and Fargo Rock City, Chuck Klosterman is one of America's foremost authorities on pop culture. The Esquire columnist's first foray into fiction, Downtown Owl, hits stores Sept. 16. Klosterman talked to TIME about shifting to fiction, his best celebrity interviews and why Paris Hilton will one day define this strange...
...That's a really interesting question. What cultural phenomenon from 1998 seems most ridiculous now? People thought electronica was going to be the new rock music. Death in Vegas and The Chemical Brothers were going to be the new Beatles and Stones. That never happened. Now? The biggest phenomenon, in a way, is the widespread [idea] that all these things people used to pay for should be free - information, music. It's overlooking the fact that there's a cost of construction for these things. It'll be strange look back at this period and say, remember when we thought...