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...Sending Wallace to the Maine Lobster Festival to write a straight food piece was a bit naive - like sending Hunter Thompson to Las Vegas and expecting a few paragraphs about hotel amenities. Wallace attended the festival, but instead of writing about lobsters as food he mused about them as living beings in a piece that, after some entertaining diversions through marine biology and colonial history, asks, "a question that's all but unavoidable at the World's Largest Lobster Cooker, and may arise in kitchens across the U.S.: Is it all right to boil a sentient creature alive just...
...With reporting by Mark Thompson / Washington
...other men who ran for the party's nomination this year, which is why McCain managed to outlast them. As the also-rans trooped onstage to deliver their obligatory endorsements, Republicans were reminded that Mitt Romney looked like a leading man but lacked the magic; that Fred Thompson and Mike Huckabee were never going to be more than character actors; and that Rudy Giuliani was a one-hit wonder as a leading man. While the runners-up looked on bravely, Palin blew past them to the head of the line, a cloud of snow and mystery in her wake...
...Anyone who thinks Palin's wild ride - from the Nome Nugget to the National Enquirer in five short days - has damaged her with the party didn't hear the cheers as Thompson praised her achievements and snorted at the press. "Washington pundits and media bigshots," he declared, are tearing down someone who "has actually governed." When McCain and Palin take the oath, Thompson promised, "they're not going to care how much the alligators get irritated. They're going to drain that swamp...
...From there he segued into the powerful story of McCain's courage under torture as a North Vietnamese prisoner of war. "Being a POW doesn't qualify anyone to be president," Thompson allowed at the end. "But it does reveal character. Friends...it's pretty clear there are two questions we'll never have to ask ourselves: Who is this man, and can we trust this man with the presidency...