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...cannot see fast enough to pick out the details of a pass thrown in a football game. The mind cannot recover a childhood birthday beyond an impressionistic blur. In our technological age, what would we do without instant replay? In his debut novel “Beautiful Children,” Charles Bock confronts the problem of video’s power, using this subtext to focus on an underexposed subject: the roughly 1.5 million adolescents who flee their homes every year in North America. But despite its shimmering surface, Bock’s novel ultimately crumbles under the burden...
...Waco, Texas, that afternoon, uninspiring before an unimpressive crowd. In San Antonio that night, her stump speech collapsed into unstructured chaos. She yelled hoary Democratic clichés at the crowd - "Health care should be a right, not a privilege!" - and it was easy to assume that she had thrown in the towel, that this was coming...
Over the last three days, Hillary Clinton has obviously thrown a lot at you. The kitchen sink, as you say, NAFTA, [controversial real estate developer Antoin] Rezko, 3 a.m. call. What hurt the most? You know, the truth is, in terms of what happened, in the last week, we were down 20 in all these states, and so we were working on closing the gap, but it's not clear to me that even if things were perfect that we could've entirely closed that gap. Partly because she's a very vigorous campaigner, and they had the resources...
...Committee (DNC), and its embattled head, Howard Dean, keep stressing that it wouldn't be fair now to suddenly change the rules that were agreed to a year ago. (The Clinton camp, however, insists it simply agreed not to campaign in the two states, not to have their delegates thrown...
...hand-wringing, look for a resolution soon. Everyone knows it is in their interest to get this behind them, and it would put to rest some more extreme, legally dubious proposals being thrown around; some Florida state legislators, for instance, have even discussed a bill that would prevent the Democratic presidential nominee from having his or her name on the November ballot if the state's delegates aren't recognized...