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...from the candidate, not the other way around. "Any campaign has to be a reflection of who the candidate is," Nelson says. In 2000, McCain ran his insurgent operation out of a dilapidated headquarters just outside D.C. that had previously been occupied by homeless people. Now, as the front runner, he faces a different set of expectations. Nearly from Day One, he will have to have full-fledged operations up and running in 15 or 20 states. Last time around he could skip Iowa to focus on staging an upset in New Hampshire, but this time McCain will have...
While the Republican Party has a history of anointing its candidates early, this rarely happens without a fight. "It's easy to throw the bombs," says G.O.P. pollster Tony Fabrizio. "It's tough to be the front runner every day." For McCain, the biggest potential threats at the moment appear to be Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, who is getting good buzz on the right but is largely unknown even to Republicans, and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who comes out ahead of McCain in many polls but has yet to begin building much of a campaign operation...
...beauty cache, so we wanted to compensate. FM sat down with three Harvard beauty queens to pick their brains about JonBenet, being hot at Harvard, and Tom Cruise in his underwear. Windsor G. Hanger ’10: Buncombe County’s Junior Miss, first runner up and winner of the overall academic award at Junior Miss North Carolina 2006. A. Elizabeth Bridges ’09: South Carolina’s At-Large 2005; finalist for Be Your Best Self 2005. Sopen B. Shah ’08: runner-up to America’s Junior Miss...
That last is actually the more interesting question, though not for business reasons. After Richards' slur, the analysis emphasized how "lovable" his character Kramer was. But Seinfeld wasn't universally loved. The most popular show among white viewers, it was a distant runner-up among blacks, and minorities criticized it for having all white stars and portraying people of color as stereotypes or buffoons (the Johnnie Cochran--like lawyer; Babu, the Pakistani restaurateur). Did the critics have a point? It's going to be hard to look the same way, say, at the episode in which Kramer inadvertently dresses...
...anniversary with a special $10 paperback edition and a series of "Jest Fest" readings and panels. But it might be just as appropriate to deliver a eulogy for Infinite Jest--not to praise it but to bury it. After all, it did not win (nor was it a runner-up for) the National Book Award or the Pulitzer Prize or any other major award. It was hailed as the Novel of the Future, and in fact it kicked off a temporary revival of the maxi-novel, books like Cryptonomicon and The Corrections and Underworld and White Teeth. For a moment...