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This year's Al Smith Dinner - the annual gala that raises funds for the Archdiocese of New York and has become an essential social ticket for the city's political and media class - will be remembered as a rare cease-fire moment in the heated 2008 presidential campaign. Exchanging rolled-up shirt sleeves for white ties, John McCain and Barack Obama cracked each other up on topics that usually result in outraged press statements when raised on the campaign trail. "I got my name, Barack, from my father," deadpanned Obama, "and I got my middle name from somebody who obviously...
...found that those with the football paraphernalia were almost twice as likely to vote. "I was very, very surprised," Laband says. Up to this point, most behavioral research has focused on the correlation between the likelihood of voting and displays of political expression - membership in a party, or "Vote Smith for Congress" signs on the porch. "These results show that different kinds of expressive behavior, voting and football fandom, are linked somehow, even if they don't have the common thread of politics," he says...
...Smith: Except, in a public-policy sense, you could argue the success of the Clinton presidency stemmed from his ability to adapt rather brilliantly to the hostile climate created by a Republican Congress...
...Smith: But we have to draw the line between the issues ... and television and the fact that these people come into our homes now 24/7. They become adjunct members of the family. One reason why I think we have lots of one-term Presidents is because they wear out their welcome like any sitcom character ... The single greatest problem confronting the presidency is overexposure...
...always called them canaries in the coalmine, because they were in some ways hypersensitive to what was going on in the world. They were expressing their feelings of powerlessness and they felt they should live, do drugs, drink, whatever to take the pain away.” Like Bessie Smith, when Dalton sang a song it seemed to first require a process of self-immolation, the details of which are not so much hidden by the beauty of the song as they are softened...