Word: roundness
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CAMPAIGN SCORECARD [This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] ROUND 1 2 3 4 ISSUE Economy (short-term) Economy (medium-term) Economy (long-term) Demeanor ACTION While Barack Obama was cool, confident and deliberate, John McCain was initially frantic and overheated and seemed as panicked as his advisers--who recognized their campaign could go down the economic drain. Obama was perhaps a tad cautious and reserved but stayed in sync with fellow Dems on Capitol Hill by letting the political benefits of nationwide alarm boost their case. Barring disaster, every aspect of the campaign will...
...week's winner is based on the relative importance of each fight and by how much the winner takes each round...
...Bushnell, what with the success of the Sex and the City movie and the success--or, at any rate, the renewal--of her NBC series Lipstick Jungle. She also just announced a deal to write young-adult novels about the teen years of Carrie Bradshaw. One Fifth Avenue should round all that out nicely. It's certainly a page turner of practically Germanic efficiency. But it also reminds us of a weird truth about its author, which is that Bushnell on the page is a far darker, more interesting creature than Bushnell on the screen...
...Obama has said little about how he would tackle that fundamental issue as President. Indeed, his short-term proposals - a second round of stimulus checks, for example, and some of his refundable tax credits for working families - could have the opposite effect, spurring more consumer spending. That might make voters happy and briefly goose the economy, but it won't persuade America to stop living beyond its means...
...final memo I didn’t receive concerned callbacks. Apparently, they were posted Friday night and the callbacks themselves were held Saturday afternoon. My bad. When I did look at the list, albeit tardily, I had, in fact, been called back. Unfortunately, I had missed the second round of auditions for a trip to, you guessed it, New York. My bad. Producers of Ivory Tower, I apologize. But I know you need me. Call me. You have my number...