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Dorothy’s red heels click incessantly on the screen. They close and open again and again but Dorothy doesn’t budge. But these heels are not going to bring anybody back to Oz—they’re stuck in a continuous loop. No, you?...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lossless Blurs Lines Between Old, New | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

With roughly three weeks until elections, the American cultural landscape stands on the precipice of a paradigm shift the like of which has not been seen in nearly a decade. The shift is one that will define a cultural vocabulary for the next four, if not eight years, and it...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Vowell Discovers Timeless Humor in U.S. History | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

That was, no doubt, the politic answer. But not the correct one. Obama was underestimating the public's capacity to hear the truth - which is odd, since the national desire for substance, the unwillingness to be diverted by "lipstick on a pig" trivialities, has been so striking in this campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Obama Surge: Will It Last? | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

Economics professor Benjamin M. Friedman ’66, for example, noted that had economists seen the future in early 2007, “they almost certainly would have forecast a steeper downturn, with many more layoffs.” That is a striking insight. It is unpopular to say...

Author: By Jan Zilinsky | Title: Lessons from the Financial Crisis | 10/7/2008 | See Source »

McCain is by no means out of the game yet. Since it is the eve of the World Series, let's use a baseball analogy: McCain is down eight runs, but it is the seventh inning, not the ninth. He needs to whittle away at Obama's lead in Nashville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can McCain Turn the Tide in Debate No. 2? | 10/7/2008 | See Source »

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