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...days, we knocked the doors of the people that were once Hillary Clinton’s base. They are the new swing vote, for a reason that all but the most jaded political hands should find troubling: many of them, quite simply, are racists.Rep. John Murtha, a sixteen-term Congressman from Pittsburgh, acknowledged this reality on Wednesday with a bluntness that a less secure incumbent could never have dared. “There is no question that western Pennsylvania is a racist area,” he said. I am afraid that in small towns on the Jersey border, there...
...Gist: Sixteen of India's best known writers travel across the country to document and observe areas and communities that are most vulnerable to the HIV/AIDS crisis - transgendered men and women of the "hijra" community; sex workers and their families in Mumbai; truckers who spend most of their lives on the road; the disaffected youth who have turned to injectable drugs; and homosexual men whose lifestyle is criminalized by Indian...
Awkward pain is not exactly news in teen movies. John Hughes got it just right in his Brat Pack pictures of the mid-'80s (Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink and their kin), and so did the never-to-be-equaled Heathers. Nick & Norah just takes adolescent isolation a step further by ditching the parent figures and leaving the kids to forge their own ethics and agendas on one make-or-break night in Gotham. The plot's twin spurs are that Norah has to keep tabs on her alkie friend Caroline (Ari Graynor) - her nickname is Winehouse - and that...
...then the whole father-son, mentor-protégé, competitive generational narrative got up and danced as Clinton laid on his hands: Sixteen years ago, he told the roaring crowd, Democrats gave him the honor of leading them: "We prevailed in a campaign in which the Republicans said I was too young and too inexperienced to be Commander in Chief. Sound familiar?" It didn't work then, he said, "because we were on the right side of history. And it won?t work in 2008, because Barack Obama is on the right side of history." A President who spent...
...favorite inanimate thing - and I have owned many things - was an old wooden boat. She was sixteen feet long and too heavy to lift, and I could just barely drag her over a sandbar to the water. She had been, long before, a lifeboat on a ship. They made her lapstraked and beautiful back then, and strong. But they did make her heavy; it took three strokes just to get her moving. Get her going, though, and boy she went - she rowed out straight as a city street, through waves and wind with a wonderful, easy motion. As a young...