Word: sittings
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...however, know as much about the man behind the legend, Gregory Maguire. When the fantasy-fiction author made a pit stop at the Harvard Book Store to chat about his new venture into Oz, “A Lion Among Men,” FM took the opportunity to sit down and chat about the perks and pitfalls of writing in a fantasy world...
...visit or intend to stay. The Democrats in Congress were handed greater power despite abiding unpopularity; we'll now see whether they understand that it's a loan, not a reward. And the repudiation of President Bush and his allies ensures that the conservative movement will have to sit in a circle, hold hands, light some incense and figure out what its members really believe in when it comes to putting their principles into practice. The legacy of a President who vastly expanded the national debt, the size of government and its reach into what was once called private enterprise...
...mischaracterizing his position on Social Security, on Medicare. Nobody got after him. There wasn't that collective gasp from the press that we got every time we took a shot at the guy. [McCain] rejected every appeal to bring [Rev. Jeremiah] Wright up. Barack Obama made a choice to sit it that church for 20 years and listen to this guy. Then why on earth shouldn't that be something for the voters to consider? He would not do it. He would not do it. But we got called racist by Karen Tumulty for a Frank Raines...
...equally popular, although based on the number of campaign pins, the crowd leans heavily toward Obama. Several teenagers even took photos lying down on the bright blue carpet that NBC rolled out for the occasion, the very same spot where the city's most famous Christmas tree will sit next month. Surrounded by cameras and curious pedestrians, MSNBC's Nora O'Donnell sits in front of the rink delivering the latest news about the historic election as Rockefeller guards implore the crowd to "just keep moving" and one frustrated local shouts, "It's just a lady speaking into a camera...
...Obama's stump speech still has all the soaring themes that got him this far, but with some practical advice: cheering supporters should not get complacent. "We can't afford to slow down or sit back or let up for one second," he says. With a massive turnout crucial to his calculus of the big victory that his strategists now believe to be tantalizingly close, Obama is delivering a tutorial on election mechanics at nearly every stop, exhorting people to get to the polls and vote - even if it means, as it has in early voting in Ohio, that they...