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...George W. Bush use his brother’s position as governor of Florida to steal the 2000 election (rightfully won by Al Gore), but he then had the audacity to beat John Kerry and John Edwards. The mention of their defeat is usually when “the sad eyes” emerge—that look that fills you with the hopelessness of a Kerry-Edwards-less executive branch. Proposed response to phase two: stay still...

Author: By Vanessa J. Dube | Title: Hiding in the Conservative Closet | 11/8/2006 | See Source »

...really get to the heart of the matter. Now that the assumer has already ensured that you are, in fact, intelligent, she can proceed to more challenging positions. Tip off number two: nostalgic references to the tragedy of the stolen presidency, usually accompanied by “the sad eyes...

Author: By Vanessa J. Dube | Title: Hiding in the Conservative Closet | 11/8/2006 | See Source »

...nightclub dance-off. In an interview with Dateline in June, belly full with her second child, Spears told Matt Lauer, "I feel like I'm a target." When asked if she thought people were rooting against her marriage, the weepy mother said, "If they are that's sad. I think everybody should be 'pro love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britney and K-Fed: Fun While It Lasted | 11/7/2006 | See Source »

...suppose if you're single, meeting people by eating great food prepared in a bad kitchen probably beats volunteering for charities. But to me, underground restaurants feel a little '90s, infused with that anticorporate, Burning Man, do-it-yourself zine enthusiasm. I'm glad they exist, but the sad truth is, much as I wish it weren't true, I would rather sit antisocially at a stuffy restaurant where no one is reading poetry at me. And where they have chairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Secret Suppers | 11/6/2006 | See Source »

...write The Great War?"my subterranean world," he calls the seven-days-a-week slog?Carlyon spent more time with the men he wrote about than with his friends. "Reading their letters, you get to know them," he says, "and in a funny way it makes you very sad when you find out they're going to die." He was especially fond of Philip Schuler, a handsome, talented journalist who went to Gallipoli as a war correspondent, then enlisted in the Army and was sent to France. Writing home from Messines, he signed off: "Keep on remembering." Four days later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For the Fallen | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

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