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...long on experience, vision and brains, they will persuade former Vice President Gore to throw his hat into the ring. President George W. Bush's disastrous terms have shown us all how hazardous it is to pick a President with very little relevant experience. Good intentions, handsome hairstyles and slick sound bites don't help much when the chips are down...
...There is something slightly anachronistic about all this. Romney is the most perfect iteration I've seen of the television-era candidate. At one point, I squinted a bit and saw him in the middle distance: blue suit, white shirt, red tie, high forehead, slick black hair, tan, tall and ramrod straight - he could have been an exhibit in some future Museum of Natural History: Politicianus americanus. Matt Lauer and a Today show crew were following him around, and at the high school speech Romney did a slightly cheesy thing, inviting Lauer on stage, amping his candidacy with a.m. glitz...
...South Carolina, clarified the field--not just which candidates should be taken seriously but also how the serious candidates are likely to relate to one another. I thought Mitt Romney won the first debate because he was smooth and lost the second because he was slick. Rudy Giuliani won the second because he seemed forceful, after appearing uncertain in the first. John McCain was a presence in both--a mostly honorable presence, I might...
...epic proportions last year, is back. Collegeboxes—proclaimed the largest national storage and rental business geared towards college clients (whatever that means) by The Wall Street Journal—has re-inked a contract with Harvard Student Agencies (HSA) to provide summer storage on campus. Their slick website promises three Justin Timberlake and Andy Sandberg-like simple steps—step one: put your junk in a box; step two: let them pick up the box; step three: they’ll deliver the box (and that’s the way you do it!). Whether this...
...years have griped that the DH rule, which was instituted in 1973 to spark sagging American League offenses, takes much of the strategy out of the national pastime. The usual complaint has been that with the DH, managers didn't have to pick pinch hitters, or pull off slick double switches. For years it was the home of all-or-nothing strikeout kings too bulky to play the field - think Greg "The Bull" Luzinski, the DH for the Chicago White Sox in the early 1980s, or Reggie Jackson late in his career...