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...would be 20 years before the Democrats had to hand power back, and this didn't go much better. After the 1952 election, Harry Truman wrote in his diary that Eisenhower was being coy about cooperation: "Ike and his advisers are afraid of some kind of trick. There are no tricks ... All I want to do is to make an orderly turnover." When it was Eisenhower's turn, he was determined to handle things better, and to their mutual surprise, he and Kennedy impressed each other when they met at the White House. The young President later found himself relying...
...venture,” said Hiatt, who learned the craft of brewing with his father and would love to go into the industry. “The way I see it, HoCo is paying for me to do something I love. I want to do it forever. The trick will be to find a sophomore in two years to pick it up when I graduate,” Hiatt said as he transferred the fermenting liquid from the barrel to the carboy to remove sediment. He spends about ten hours a week preparing Smada, making the hallways of Randolph smell...
Well, mystery abounds. What's next for the group? Was the point really just to give New Yorkers a chuckle or trick them into thinking for few fleeting minutes that U.S. involvement in Iraq had ended? By midday, the groups posted a video account of the prank, with interviews with readers around New York City. Some reports said the fake-out was nationwide, but the video was shot all in New York, and accounts of the stunt seemed limited to the actual home of the Times. And how does the New York Times feel about being parodied and satirized...
...After the election, relations weren't much better. Truman wrote in his diary on Nov. 11, 1952, that Eisenhower was being coy about cooperating on the transition. "Ike and his advisers are afraid of some kind of trick. There are no tricks ... All I want is to make an orderly turnover. It has never been done...
...world leaders tripping over themselves to salute their freshly minted colleague Barack Obama, just as for news anchors across the globe struggling to put Obama's victory into context, only one word seems to do the trick: historic. Repetition of that portentous adjective could have dulled its impact. But the sheer scale of the world's interest - the blanket media coverage; the election-watching parties, some slickly organized, others spontaneous; the fascination that overrode time zones and deep-seated political apathy to keep people glued for hours to radios and televisions and computers and, yes, Twitter - all served as reminders...