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...well. Snow hit the campaign trail this fall, an unprecedented move for a White House press secretary. He headlined 17 fund raisers for G.O.P. candidates in the two months leading up to the midterms. Of course, it wasn't just Snow's popularity that put him on the stump. If Snow's conservative bona fides have made him as familiar to the Republican base as Bush is, Snow is also, for the moment, probably better liked. In the end, if a candidate would rather be seen with the press secretary than with the President, then you've got bigger problems...
...just didn’t want to presume what the cause of the damage was until we get the investigation back, Galluccio said in an interview following the meeting. Galluccio, citing a city official, said that the stump wouldn’t be removed until the investigation was complete...
Galluccio’s revision wouldn’t have altered the resolution’s final section, which calls for “possible sculptural use” of the stump. And following last night’s vote, the entire 255-word resolution—unlike the tree it trumpets—remains standing...
...wrestle of writing one of his plays when it struck. "The marrow turns tepid, the skin spongy, the eyes dry, the feet stepping ahead in a flat counting-to-ten kind of way," he writes. "You begin to identify with inert objects. A fence post, a wardrobe, a cut stump in the park. You see these things and see yourself in them: a dead thing with a faint memory of flowing sap." Gurr respects the stealthy enemy, in a way, but he also knows its vulnerability. "Each episode erases the most important memory of all: that it passes...
...hunt you down. In the partisan world of political websites, there are few undecideds; we are not exactly a society of people who surf the Web to find arguments that we disagree with. So YouTube has mainly been useful for embarrassing enemies (popularizing Senator George Allen's macaca campaign-stump slur) or preaching to the converted (through videos of commentators like Michelle Malkin and Stephen Colbert...