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...According to a poll published in The New York Times, Americans believe in Barack Obama's ability to change the course of the economy, health care, and the war in Iraq, but they understand that it may take at least two years to see some results. In terms of the length of the recession it is a capitulation of sorts, an admission that the financial straights in which the economy finds itself has no ready solution. (See pictures of the world reacting to Obama...
...Lamont since last Thursday, trying to finish my junior thesis, retiring to the cushy chairs at night, only to drag myself back to my study spot come sunrise. And you think a casual 3 p.m. drop-by warrants a desk? Now don’t get me wrong. I understand how frustrating it is to finally muster the resolve to march over to Lamont only to scour every floor, and find one absentee desk after another, effectively claimed by littered with open textbooks and marked-up papers. But here’s a thought: if you really needed that desk...
...plot of land half the size of a soccer field on the proposed building site, which it says it won't sell in an effort to delay the village's demolition. Emma Thompson, the Oscar-winning actress, was among several celebrities who helped purchase the land. "I don't understand," she said, "how any government remotely serious about committing to reversing climate change can even consider these ridiculous plans...
Well, sort of. It's also about getting fat and driving a big rig. And manicures. And blogging. The man who wrote "Ohio" - one of the most biting protest songs rock 'n' roll has ever offered - whose emotive tenor voice helped thousands of young baby boomers struggling to understand their country, is now writing lyrics about his flat-screen TV. "Got it repo'd now," he sings in a video he posted to the Huffington Post. "Missed the Raiders game...
Christina, who is crippled by polio, is one of Wyeth's few close friends. He judges people by their reactions to her. "I don't take some people to see her," says Wyeth, "because they won't understand." He fears that they will find her grotesque. Christina's house contains the anonymous leavings of years of confinement. The smell of burning oil, charred wood, fat cats and old cloth fills the air. Christina, now nearing 70, does not let anyone see how she moves about, stubbornly refuses to use a wheelchair. "Andy's a very...