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From what I could tell, early voters are the best-informed, smartest, most responsible members of society. Twenty percent of them were supporting their candidate even before he decided to run; 12% planned to spend Nov. 4 volunteering at the polls. When I asked if they wanted to vote now for the next American Idol winner, 80% told me they don't watch the show. Two graduated from high school a year early. One was voting early so she "would be able to avoid crowds and take my time and read all the propositions carefully." These people were making such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Own Election Exit Poll | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

Memorable Claxton images include a young Charlie Parker in the Claxton home, John Coltrane in the Guggenheim Museum and Art Pepper walking up a steep hill on his release from prison. Claxton's last assignment was a cover portrait of Bob Dylan for the just-released album Tell Tale Signs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: William Claxton | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

...like to tell the story of a Chinese manufacturer that was getting feedback about its washing machines' clogging up drains. The company investigated and found that the machines worked just fine but that rural consumers were using them to wash potatoes. What would an American company do to solve this problem? Call in a p.r. firm to tell consumers that washing vegetables voids their warranty? The Chinese company had a better idea: it added a vegetable-wash cycle to its machines. We call this innovating with ingenuity--and no government program can teach this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the New World Disorder, Loads of Rivals for America | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

...when there just don't seem to be a lot of other ways to predict someone's behavior ... and you've seen this much more in campaigns. George W. Bush is a good example. [He appeared] to be just very flat during the campaign. It was hard to tell what he thought ideologically. And how he behaved in office, of course, was different in those terms ... I was just trying to think of examples of moments that have become kind of our iconic moments of ideal presidential temperament. The Cuban missile crisis seems to be one. [Franklin] Roosevelt's first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Kind of Temperament Is Best? | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

...outside the tryouts, you have people waiting to take you out,” Anidi adds. “Trying to tell you how great their group was, and why you should stay...

Author: By Jessica R. Henderson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: La Famiglia A Capella | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

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