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William R. Rose ’11, leader of the IOP survey program, said that the disconnect between the approval ratings of Obama’s job performance and his handling of specific issues may be a result of people agreeing with Obama’s general message as a whole but “feel[ing] frustrated because not much is getting done.” Rose used health care legislation as an example, referring to one of the bill’s amendments that would add more restrictions on abortions offered through insurance plans...
...cyberworld that scored the biggest gains this past holiday weekend. Online sales rose 35% on Black Friday and 14% on Cyber Monday from the same periods last year, according to Coremetrics, a Web-marketing firm. The average dollar amount per online order shot up 35% on Black Friday and 38% on Cyber Monday from a year earlier, the firm said...
...Pithos by Azienda Agricola Cos - a star vineyard in the current Sicilian wine renaissance that ferments Frappato in simple terra-cotta amphorae. Joining with an artisan potter in 2007, Viret now creates an amphora-fermented Mourvèdre assemblage, with Muscat Petit Grain and Clairette Rose cuvées to come. He vaunts the gentle, low temperatures of fermentation in clay and its substantial porosity. Rather aptly, Domaine Viret is situated on a former Roman military camp...
...drum up a date for a screening. But persuading someone to join you at the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's solemn, searing postapocalyptic novel The Road is apparently akin to asking if they'll help you transport nuclear waste. One friend essentially declared that even if Pauline Kael rose forth from the grave to endorse this cinematic spectacle of father and son wandering a ruined world in search of uncertain sanctuary, she still would...
...Viggo Mortensen's dirty, hairy (but still pretty) face rose up from the ashy grave of America, bringing McCarthy's "Man" to life in John Hillcoat's bleakly beautiful movie, I was torn between feeling sorry for my unaccompanied self and feeling sorry for the filmmakers. I read McCarthy's lean, brutalizing novel in one unhappy gulp 15 months ago and only recently began to consider myself healed. How do you lure people to a movie made from a book that itself probably should have borne a mental-health warning from the surgeon general? Do you target the innocents...