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DEFINITION vid-e-o snak-ing v: The practice of watching snippets of video on a computer or other small screen, such as a cell phone...
...those are things that you contemplate at the time, at the appropriate time that you're in office. So for me to think about whether I'm going to run for four or eight years, after winning just one primary, I think it's just something not on the screen. But I understand why people would...
...Professional sports are not that different from any other occupation. Owners and general managers are under the same pressures as the CEOs of any company. And the athletes? Well, despite the fact that we often only witness them as a collection of pixels behind a glass screen, they’re human too, and we must understand them as such. From the members of the press, all the way up to the skybox, the sporting world is not its own little vacuum within our TV screen like we often believe...
...insurgent Mike Huckabee in the final moments before the first presidential nominating contest in the nation. He touched down at seven different house parties, or, as the day's inescapable football metaphor would have it, "House Party Huddles." Of course, they were less huddles than tailgate parties with large-screen TVs instead of stadiums and living rooms instead of parking lots. And Romney was less a featured attraction than halftime entertainment. In Clive, Iowa, his visit coincided with the third quarter of the Michigan game; as he spoke, guests in the downstairs rec room discreetly whispered the score to guests...
...drawing wide support from conservatives in Iowa, where nearly 4 in 10 G.O.P. caucus-goers are evangelical Christians. Sensing the momentum, Huckabee put out an ad in which he said, "Faith doesn't just influence me; it really defines me" while the words "Christian Leader" appeared on the screen over footage of the candidate. Soon evangelicals in Iowa, and even nationally, began to move toward Huckabee...