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...could clearly outspend either Birmingham or Finneran in a campaign, but if one of the candidates could gain public funding in addition to private contributions, it would improve his chances. The Boston Globe reported that Birmingham was pressuring the administration to quietly accept the changes, no doubt looking forward two years to the upcoming race...
Reading Gnter Grass's recent Nobel Lecture I was struck by two things: it's rather disjointed--like it was written in a hurry--and it's wrong in a predictable way. The triteness of it took me by surprise. I haven't read any of Grass's books, not even The Tin Drum (heck, I haven't even seen the movie), but it was my understanding that he was one of the best living writers and that his Nobel Prize for literature was long overdue. Maybe so, but his Nobel Lecture strikes me as the sort of thing that...
...candidates, and I was taken aback by what seems a most noticeable difference in the quality of reportage devoted to the different campaigns. It is clear that, while the teams writing about Darling-Patel and Plants-Wikler were quite thorough in their investigations, the articles devoted to the other two-person teams were sorely lacking...
Contrast this with the profile of Plants-Wikler, where two other people are quoted, as well as that of Darling-Patel, where two opponents are quoted extensively, and the reporters even called up someone at Ohio State. On the other hand, we do not get to find out where Darling or Plants grew up, a clearly vital fact. (Texas and Michigan, respectively...
...nanotweezers have two carbon tubes that can grasp molecules...