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Throughout her grandson's campaign, Dunham declined to talk to reporters. She played bridge and followed the race closely on TV. "So long as you kids do well, Bar," she would tell her grandson, "that's all that really matters." Dunham's death on the eve of the election meant she would never see how well her grandson did. It's a tragedy she probably would have accepted with grace...
...Depression 2.0! In the meantime, forgive me for reaching for the panic button: with unemployment expected to move into the double digits, I'm looking for a way to survive until you get us out of this mess. So here's what I'm thinking, and please do not tell my wife: I'm planning on turning my basement into a full-service karaoke...
...sing along to some joker doing "Memories" on YouTube. By contrast, the Karaoke Channel Online thekaraokechannel.com streams scrolling lyrics and professional-grade karaoke, in instrumental or sing-along mode, for $14.95 a day or $9.95 a month for a minimum of two months. As far as I can tell, with more than 4,000 songs and close to 100 added a week, it has the biggest music library out there...
...Kinsley's advice to tell people "what they don't want to hear" is a recipe for disaster for any U.S. presidential candidate seeking to win votes in our rapid-fire, media-spun era of talking-points demagoguery. Adlai Stevenson, the last presidential candidate who sincerely tried to talk sense to the American people, suffered two defeats following Kinsley's advice, and the 1950s' American electorate was smarter than those immersed in today's lowest-common-denominator, Joe the Plumber world of sham politics. Our only hope is that the better candidate, Obama, can cajole people into assuring his victory...
...don’t think there’s any one that stands out more than the other. I do remember an event that was deeply moving to me. That was when Nelson Mandela got an honorary degree. That was really quite extraordinary.14. FM: Tell me one thing about HUDS that would surprise a Harvard student. TAM: What’s one thing... I don’t know. There are a lot of misconceptions about HUDS. People make a lot of assumptions, and they’re really all over the place, from our purchasing, from who makes decisions...