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Obama says his Senate chief of staff, Pete Rouse, now working full time for the campaign, is "as smart and savvy a person as there is on Capitol Hill but is completely ego-free...
...Joplin, Santana and Earth, Wind & Fire, I knew I had come of age after Jerry reached out to spend time with me. We became friends. I would go to his house in East Hampton and listen to records and marvel at his commentary, always colorful, always mesmerizing and always smart. Artists from every genre would join us, but it was Jerry with his laugh, lexicon and turns of phrase who held center stage. He might have been the elder statesman among us, but when the music played, the years swept away and his youthful enthusiasm bubbled over. Music can lift...
...fact, Finer points out that the energy company Petrobras plans to use helicopters to transport all personnel and material to and from a site in Yasuni National Park in Ecuador. That move came at the behest of the Ecuadorian government, and it's representative of the sort of smart energy policies that South American governments will need to follow if the western Amazon isn't going to be sacrificed for oil. Just as important are the environmental impact assessments that can accurately gauge just how destructive a new oil or gas project might be, not just to the land that...
...shot putters, who were supposed to sweep, let the team down. On Friday, all they managed was a silver. First all those doping scandal, and now a start like this? NBC shut track out of a live primetime spot in the States. That's beginning to look pretty smart - unless America is ready to beatify Bolt...
...away, trying not to cry. It's silent for a minute, and then one of the women quietly says, "You've got my vote." To which Franken says, "That's why I said it." And at that moment, Franken is an unbeatable politician. Not because he's funny or smart. But because all the people in the room know he understands them...