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...concerned about the Bradley effect--the theory that secretly racist white people tell pollsters they'll vote for a black candidate like Barack Obama but will actually pull the lever for a white one like John McCain. The truth is that secretly racist white people happily vote for black candidates, listen to black musicians and laugh at black comedians to make themselves feel better about not having black friends. In fact, I once even tried to get all the way through Barbershop...
...polls. On Election Day itself the party was defeated by more than seven percent in the popular vote. Research done afterwards suggested that significant numbers of people who voted Conservative felt, in the last few days, that Kinnock could not be trusted but had been too ashamed to tell pollsters. The Obama campaign is no doubt aware of this historical lesson...
...Clint Eastwood’s latest film “Changeling,” Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie) tells her son, “Never start a fight, but always finish it.” Though it’s no “Million Dollar Baby,” “Changeling” stays true to this charge, fighting to tell a story of justice and loss till the very end of an emotionally turbulent 140 minutes. Jolie’s impassioned performance at times veers into the melodramatic, but it’s the lifeblood...
...training and practice LSAT questions. After being presented with the impossible challenge to help a fellow sorority sister locate her true love, Gulsvig upstaged Andersson’s answer and revealed her natural wit by thinking on her feet: “Well, I’d just tell you to bend and snap, and he’d come to you!”Before the cast performed two numbers from the show—“Blood in the Water” and “So Much Better,” the dynamic Act I finale?...
...appreciation of Warhol’s work, the conference will also delve into the complex questions surrounding the art. “Warhol’s work is beyond all the traditional boundaries,” Buchloh says. “You can never tell whether his work is affirmative or subversive or critical, whether it is playing with the code of fashion and consumer culture or whether it is undermining them or intensifying them.”The current global influence of Warhol is one of the most innovative approaches to his work that will be discussed this weekend...