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...bus” was one of the four models of the famed “Straight Talk Express” that Sen. McCain and his campaign used during the 2000 Republican presidential primaries and have put to use again during the 2008 presidential election cycle, which has pitted him against Illinois Democrat Barack Obama...
...another story of accomplishment. For Butt, this was not the first time advising an Olympic athlete. He has coached athletes in each of the last four Olympic Games, not to mention several World Championships in between.J. Adam Holland ’94, who was coached by Butt for the straight pair in the 1996 Olympics, explained his popularity among competitive rowers.“A lot of the coaches I’ve worked with in my career tend to treat athletes as commodities,” he said. “For Charley it’s a partnership?...
...cordially invited to Katy Perry’s wedding, a wedding that boasts a not-so-straight bride, an adolescent-looking groom, a bridal party, and a zebra. As the baby-faced Alexander gets cold feet, the maid of honor—a not-so-handsome man in a very handsome dress—delivers the perfect “Oh my God, you scumbag; I can’t believe you haven’t answered yet” face. Then, as the bridal party inexplicably begins to dance, a black groomsman with the most awesome dreads pulls...
...divorced twice before the age of 21. It was not long until she made her way to Greenwich Village at a time when residence all but required one to be a bard or a banjo player. She was beautiful, too. “Karen was tall, willowy, had straight black hair, was long-waisted and slender, what we all wanted to look like,” Lacy J. Dalton, a self-described “hard-luck” chanteuse and former fellow West Villager, has said. She could certainly sing and strum the banjo (and a 12-string Gibson...
...informed about the person for whom they cast their ballots. But if the process of debunking entails alienating and even implicitly vilifying part of the population, it is time to reconsider one’s tactics. In his rush to get the “facts” straight, Obama, along with McCain and the media, has only reinforced the infuriating notion that Muslims are something less than true Americans. This election has been a celebration of diversity on issues of race, gender, and geography—why not religion...