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...SCOTT BROWN, Republican U.S. Senator-elect, after defeating Democratic candidate Martha Coakley in Massachusetts to win the seat long held by Ted Kennedy...
After a solid half-hour, he gave up the stage to Bill O'Reilly, but not before calling the audience to join him at the Lincoln Memorial on Aug. 28 to show Washington that something needs to be done. The words resonated with Scott Hand, 39, a delivery driver from Rochester: "I'm on edge. It's time to go to Washington and stomp my foot on the ground and say, 'Hey, quit spendin' my money, our money...
Salinger drew from Sherwood Anderson, Isak Dinesen, F. Scott Fitzgerald and especially Ring Lardner, whose wise-guy voice you hear chiming in the snappy banalities and sometimes desperate patter spoken by Salinger's characters, a tone that found its way years later into the neurotic chatter of Woody Allen's New Yorkers. But Salinger bent it all into something new, a tone that drew from the secular and the religious, the worldly and the otherworldly, the ecstatic and the inconsolable. It's customary to assume that the seven Glass children - the Glass family, an intricate hybrid of showbiz and spirituality...
Times are tough at Harvard. Our huge endowment is now a less huge endowment. Young liberals campus-wide are still sobbing into their cappuccinos over Scott Brown’s victory. Childhood dreams about working at Goldman Sachs have been crushed, and the prospect of sub-six-figure salaries is becoming a horrifying reality...
...proposals were in the works long before Scott Brown rode his truck to victory in Massachusetts, and they reflect fairly modest shifts in the Administration's finance policies. Even the rhetoric is familiar: Obama took periodic swipes at "outrageous" bonuses and "fat-cat bankers" throughout his first year in office. But the latest bank-bashing does indicate a new strategic approach to his second year, inspired by the same public wrath that produced Brown's upset. As the White House shifts its top legislative priority from health care reform to financial reform, it is hoping to avoid the mistakes...