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...perhaps the worst President we have ever had or, hopefully, will ever have. The first election, in 2000, was engineered, jockeyed and ultimately stolen. The second, in 2004, was actually won by Bush. To cite the phrase that he himself found so difficult to utter: Fooled us once, shame on them. But the second time around, shame on us. W. should be required viewing in every political-science class in the country. Linda Calcagno Melchione, Easton, Mass...
...perhaps the worst President we have ever had or, hopefully, will ever have. The first election, in 2000, was engineered, jockeyed and ultimately stolen. The second, in 2004, was actually won by Bush. To cite the phrase that he himself found so difficult to utter: Fooled us once, shame on them. But the second time around, shame on us. W. should be required viewing in every political-science class in the country. Linda Calcagno Melchione, EASTON, MASS...
...packed with colorful stamps, almost every experienced globetrotter has at least one great story about a one-night stand in a foreign land. Which isn't surprising. Traveling is so romantic in nature - moonlight over unfamiliar cityscapes, trains rumbling through thousand-year-old crumbling vistas - it would seem a shame not to share it with someone. And practically speaking, of course, hooking up with a winsome local means you've got an insider's guide to the best restaurants and someone to help you work off the calories with later...
There could be nobody better suited to describe the hilarious, improbable triumph of Robert Bolaño than Bolaño himself, which is a shame because he's dead. At the time of his death, in 2003, Bolaño was a major writer in the Spanish-speaking world but virtually unknown and untranslated in English. Why that should be is not much of a mystery. Bolaño was a difficult, angry, self-reflexive writer who lived an erratic and occasionally unpleasant life. And Americans, as the head of the Swedish Academy has annoyingly but rightly pointed...
...detached to describe it as fear, then it’s not very effective,” he said. “But an attack that works is not an attack at all, it’s a hard hitting issues ad about your opponents records of shame.” Castellanos also discussed the concern of crossing the acceptable point in negative campaigning. He credited the public as the ultimate “jury” in deciding what this limit is. Not everyone in attendance said they agreed with Castellanos on the extensive use of fear in campaigns...