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...more upbeat about the recent electoral turnaround in Florida, claiming to be overjoyed. He’s a resident of New York City since 1983 and a dual American-Canadian citizen since 2003 and a professed liberal. “I’m so glad that reason somehow prevailed, and that [Rudy Giuliani] is no longer ‘America’s Mayor,’” he says. However, he finds it hard to shake his cynicism, and says, “I fear that the Democrats might still find a way to snatch defeat...
...Then again, one of Obama's most effective lines is about the "craziness" of trying the same old thing in Washington "over and over and over again, and somehow expecting a different result." The first politician I ever heard use that line - weirdly attributed to everyone from Benjamin Franklin to Albert Einstein - was Bill Clinton. It is a sad but inescapable fact of this election that Bill and Hillary Clinton have now become "the same old thing" they once railed against. In a country where freshness is fetishized - and where a staggering 70% of the public is upset with...
...inaccurately attributed” to her. “I did not say and emphatically do not believe,” she wrote, “that our leading public universities, which have been so important for so long to the nation’s scientific enterprise, should somehow cede the field to well-endowed private institutions.” Below Faust’s letter, the weekly magazine ran an editor’s note stating that BusinessWeek had reviewed the tape-recorded conversation and concluded that “we believe we reported her comments fairly...
...Harris misses the first free throw. Harvard's only got 12 points so far this half, but somehow they are still within just...
Curiously, this does not seem to me a huge defect. For one thing, even when people live under the worst forms of totalitarianism, ordinary life somehow proceeds. They get married, they have babies, they work at their jobs, they grouse about the nutsy behavior of their friends and relatives. But perhaps more important, Caramel (the title derives from the name of the preparation used for leg-waxing in the salon) testifies to the power of American popular culture at least briefly to override the endless traumas of our ever-more-violent political lives. Even Anne Frank filled a scrapbook with...