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...realized this yesterday, when I had a panic attack. Twice, on my way to the Quad, I swiveled around on Garden Street, certain someone was calling my name. “Hey Asli,” I heard. It was a woman. Maybe she was calling, “Hey, ask me!” or “Hey, Ashley,” I thought. There aren’t many Aslis wandering around New England, after all. But no one was there...
Normally, I would use my massive size and sheer physical force to barrel by her. But this time, I hesitated, then stepped into the street...
...former running mate promise to be as divisive as their author. Several news organizations got hold of the 413-page book - which landed Palin a reported $5 million advance - ahead of its release date; their assessments are decidedly mixed. Melanie Kirkpatrick, a former deputy editor of the Wall Street Journal's editorial page, says the book reveals "a prodigious worker capable of mastering complicated issues," while Michiko Kakutani, writing in the New York Times, sees "an eager player in the blame game, ungrateful to the McCain campaign." Two common observations: Palin reserves her most aggressive attacks for McCain's campaign...
Melanie Kirkpatrick, Wall Street Journal: "As a politician, she comes across as a prodigious worker capable of mastering complicated issues - not least the energy policies that matter so much to Alaska's economy - and of building bridges to Democrats...
...Sarkozy, whose nose for the political winds is legendary, was once known as Sarko the American when more and more French were looking across the Atlantic to the flexible approach to work and dynamic business environment. But the French President reacted quickly last autumn to the Wall Street implosion by taking the lead in offering an alternative model to the U.S.'s. "The idea of the absolute power of the markets that should not be constrained by any rule, by any political intervention, was a mad idea," he declared in a widely cited speech last September in Toulon...