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...While getting up to speed on the complexity of the international challenges he will face, Obama will start filling the senior national-security posts in the new Administration. Candidates for secretary of state are believed to include former U.N. ambassador Richard Holbrooke and Chuck Hagel, a GOP senator from Nebraska who did not seek re-election and has been critical of the war in Iraq. A spokeswoman for John Kerry denied rumors that the Massachusetts senator and failed 2004 presidential nominee was also seeking the job. In the running to serve as Obama's national security adviser are James Steinberg...
...McCain found himself unable to control his own destiny. In the final weeks, he ran a hard race, refusing to give up in the face of daunting polls. "It's the only way to finish anything that you do in life, that's a competitive venture, which is full speed," explained Schmidt...
...only way to finish anything that you do in life," he continued, "that's a competitive venture, which is full speed ... We did our absolute best in this campaign in really difficult circumstances. We had some tough cards to play all the way through, and we hung in there...
...throughout the tragic movement. The violins continued to play with convincing urgency for the duration of the piece, but the lower strings couldn’t muster much support. The lively second movement was buoyant with running 16th notes in the strings like a motor beneath the orchestra. The speed occasionally got the better of the strings, as the sound sometimes lost its crispness, but Yannatos again gave the audience a thrilling ride. The slow third movement features striking, solemn chorales in the horns and bassoons and a lush string sound. In the tumultuous final movement, the strings nimbly ducked...
...Witherspoon’s somewhat inimitable facial expressions (largely dependent on the famous chiseled chin and popped rosy cheeks) charming and quite startlingly successful. And while Gulsvig brings nothing new to the table physically, she sings and dances and pouts and struts and costume-changes with inhumane speed, all of which combine to create an enjoyable overall experience. What was missing, however, was Witherspoon’s smooth transition from sneakily smart Malibu queen to career woman: Gulsvig never did strike one as deceptively clever to begin with. The objects of her affection are also unfortunately less than dreamy...