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...events in eastern and western Iowa media markets, a party with Chuck Norris in Des Moines, and a Wednesday night appearance on the Tonight Show, even though Jay Leno's studios are located more than 1,500 miles away, as the crow flies. It's a strategy that takes sober account of the fact that Romney has a huge advantage in paid advertising on television, radio and person-to-person contact...
...front-page photo of Bruni - a startling break from Le Figaro's sober tradition - was highly controversial inside the paper's newsroom. Indeed, it was published after a last-minute order from publisher Etienne Mougeotte on Sunday evening, when he overrode the decision by the editors to feature France's Olympic swimmer Laure Manadou on page one. "This is a big bone of contention," Charles Jaigu, who covers Sarkozy for Le Figaro, told TIME on Monday. "But it is a new fact that we have to deal with." That new reality includes a sharp drop in advertising revenues...
...organic to the story. There is for example, a rotting tree in the yard, which Margot climbs and gets stuck in (cue the fire department) and which we know, from the first time we see it, has to fall in some embarrassing way. The film aspires, I suppose, to sober Chekovian comedy - could that tree analogize to a Cherry Orchard? - but it is actually no more than an invitation to wallow in ill-defined neuroses. "So true, so sad," one imagines an impressionable viewer murmuring. "Let me out of here," one imagines most people saying...
...trip to see Yale fail miserably is full of untapped possibilities: the six hour round trip that could be the height of your weekend revelry or the depths of your sober despair. With that in mind FM prepared a list of ways for the motivated student to enjoy the commute...
...also marked an important way station in Gabriel's career, combining activism with intricate, African-inflected rhythms. That soulful style, similar to Paul Simon's recent Graceland excursions but rather more sober, found its fleetest expression in last year's smash album So and Top Five single Sledgehammer, a smoking slice of revisionist 1960s rhythm and blues that turned male sexual braggadocio into high comedy. The album and the single just earned Gabriel four Grammy nominations (awards to be announced Feb. 24), and the singer says that he is "pleased." Then, using a characteristic combination of deflective wit and earnestness...