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...Getting the marriage between campaign and blogger right is probably more important for Edwards than for any other Democratic candidate. The former vice-presidential candidate is moving hard to the left to differentiate himself from Clinton and Obama ahead of next year's primary contests. The blogosphere, with its surfeit of Democratic base voters, is a natural target audience: almost a third of the estimated 5 million daily political blog readers identified themselves as strongly liberal in a George Washington University study published last October...
...Hill's surfeit of former cheerleaders, student body presidents and most popular classmates can give the place an eerie, permanent-postgrad feel - a kind of constantly renewed high school scene unfolding amid all the power and prestige of the Capitol. That's especially true on the first day of a new Congress, and today, amid the pomp and revelry of the Democratic takeover, a hundred minor dramas brought it all back...
...same day last year, according to Chicago-based consumer data collection firm ShopperTrak. Yet some view the consumption frenzy encouraged by Black Friday sales as problematic. Lama Surya Das, a Buddhist leader who heads the Dzogchen Center in Cambridge, views after-Thanksgiving sales as a “surfeit of materialism,” and instead advocates “Buy Nothing Day.” “I think we’re becoming somewhat of a throw-away society rather than valuing things,” Das said, according to a press release issued by Adbusters Media...
...pillbox-hatted attendant who had served gin martinis) and drove to a local place to eat crunchy fried chicken and flaky blueberry pie. I like to imagine the gentleman then retreated to a downtown hotel where he ordered whiskey in a heavy-bottomed glass cold from a surfeit of ice cubes...
...story on that night's late news, I was playing host to a 5-year-old's birthday party, with attendees who included Ella, Ella, Stella, Ale (pronounced Ellay), Elee (same) and Belle, the princess I had rented. I don't know if my suggestibility was caused by a surfeit of medication?in this case, Ritalin?or of liquid consonants, but I agreed...