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...almost impossible to talk about it," said Frank Luntz, a Republican pollster, "without being smeared by it." Reaction to the verdict raised the familiar visage of the Angry White Male (now joined by the Angry White Female, outraged by the jury's soft-pedaling of domestic abuse). "The verdict is going to play out in the subconscious minds of critical groups," he said, like the white working class, defined as couples earning about $25,000 a year, the same voters who shifted from the Democrats to the Republicans in 1994. Such voters may see the verdict as a form...
Aggravated while he was throwing a block in Harvard’s 34-24 win over Cornell on Oct. 9, Mazza’s injury—and a similar one to his right thumb—initially required only a soft cast and scarcely affected the wideout during his prolific campaign...
...song was best rap song? That’s right, “Jesus Walks,” Kanye’s creed about mingling his open faith and his rap career, beating out favorite “99 Problems” by Jay-Z. Kanye’s soft and faithful rap seems to me the only kind of innovation that the Academy seems to favor...
...first scene, we are greeted by a Gandhi doppelgänger who puts Ben Kingsley to shame, but whose finest rhetoric (“my love is soft as a blossom and hard as a rock”) cannot get his errant pupil back on track...
...severely criticized for its investigation of physicist Wen Ho Lee in the mid-'90s, has added hundreds more counterintelligence agents and put at least one in every Energy Department research facility. The bureau also started cooperation initiatives with corporations, but still sees universities as a soft spot, with some 150,000 Chinese currently studying in the U.S. The FBI'S three most recent counterintelligence arrests were of suspects who had held student visas at some point. To help sort the few who go to America to spy from the thousands who go there for a better life, the FBI relies...