Word: touchings
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...performance was vintage Ray Nagin, all confidence and charm with a touch of self-deprecation. Admittedly, a little swagger was in order that night: With 38% of the vote, the incumbent mayor led a crowded field of 22 candidates in Saturday's primary, beating his closest rival and runoff opponent, Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu, by a 10,000-vote margin. But for all of Nagin's good humor, his victory may not be enough to carry him back into office in the May 20 runoff. Nagin's "chocolate city" remarks alienated many conservative white voters who helped propel the political...
...author has been in touch with us about this and we are taking these allegations very seriously," said Stuart Applebaum, a spokesman for Random House. When asked whether Random House has lodged a complaint with Viswanathan's publisher, Little, Brown, Applebaum said: "Publishing protocol dictates that one contacts the publisher of the book whose text may bear alleged similarities. So it is customary, it would be customary, for us to reach out to the publisher you name...
...Government Out of Touch Re "A Strange Kind of Revolution" [April 3], author Jacques Marseille's essay on the French protests over the youth labor law: Among the many problems that France has, one is an élitist government. Too few of the ministers during the past 30 years have come up through the ranks from an ordinary background. They form a modern-day monarchical court. The buildings they work in are palatial, the apartments they live in are sumptuous, and the schools they attend to reach such lofty heights are prestigious. Their grasp of the realities of the average...
...page out of R. Kelly’s life: Not the one involving underage girls (which would be an inappropriate turn for this column to take considering the topic), but rather one where he passionately and convincingly sings that he believes he can fly, he believes he can touch the sky. I believe you, R. Kelly. I believe you can fly. And if he can fly, there is no way that a kid from Harvard Yard cannot win the ultimate fight: to be the next universally recognized sex-symbol...
...This pronouncement might seem a touch premature, especially to the 500 million people who will celebrate the 37th Earth Day this weekend—a collective “not dead yet” wheeze. However, these numbers mask the growing irrelevance of the environmentalist movement. Having lost its credibility with alarmist rhetoric and obsolete ideological ballast, the movement must develop a moderate discourse while challenging its previous assumptions and outdated theories...