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...effective as it is to flood freshman dorm windows with brightly colored posters, modern UC campaigning is more about Web sites than wall signs. In an era where computer access is more important than stump speeches, students can find out everything they need to know about this year’s frontrunners without ever making human contact. But students relying on the sites to make decisions may find themselves in something of a bind. Both leading candidates boast snazzy sites full of personal biographies and various aspects of their platforms. One learns from www.schwartzbiggers.com that Benjamin P. Schwartz...
...Speaking to freshmen in Greenough Hall, McLeod seems in her element, meeting students with a smile and a well-rehearsed stump speech about academic reform and social life geared toward freshman voters...
...stories to be read to little wizarding kids. "Oh come on!" Ron says - he can't quite believe it. "All the old kids' stories are supposed to be Beedle's, aren't they? 'The Fountain of Fair Fortune'...'The Wizard and the Hopping Pot'...'Babbitty Rabbitty and Her Cackling Stump...
...think J.K. Rowling knows how to be less than charming in print - but they do vary in quality. The first tale, "The Wizard and the Hopping Pot," is the worst, a grimly heartwarming trifle about how you should be nice to Muggles. "Babbitty Rabbitty and Her Cackling Stump," a variant on the emperor's new clothes, isn't much more successful, though it was a relief to me to learn that the stump in question is a tree stump and not some kind of chortling severed limb...
...television ad called "Chicago Machine." The spot began with a narrator intoning, "Barack Obama - born of the corrupt Chicago political machine," before running through a list of Obama's allegedly unsavory cronies. A few weeks later, McCain started using what became one of his favorite lines on the stump: "I don't need any lessons about telling the truth from a Chicago politician." (See pictures of Obama's victory celebration in Chicago...