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...party leaders are warning privately against taking that strategy too far. "If Diet Coke criticizes Coke, people buy Pepsi, not Diet Coke," said Ken Mehlman, chairman of the Republican National Committee. In an internal Republican Party memo provided to TIME, Jan van Lohuizen, a longtime Bush pollster, warns candidates tempted to distance themselves that "President Bush drives our image and will do so until we have real national front-runners for the '08 nomination. If he drops, we all drop." Another Republican strategist describes the problem for G.O.P. candidates this way: "Adding weight to the anchor doesn't help them...
Perhaps the greatest downfall of the film is its inability to focus on one scene sequence at a time. Tense moments are too often interrupted by unrelated scenes, such as bickering inside the police van over the correct answer to a trivia question posed by Russell. While Russell does ask the questions with the provision that if the police get them wrong he’s going to kill hostages, the discussion is less hostage-negotiator and more Trivial Pursuit game gone...
...studies,” Summers said, according to the newspaper. “Like people study political science, culture, public health, economics, law and medicine, students in Harvard will now study India as a subject.” In an interview yesterday, Sanskrit and Indian Studies Department Chair Leonard Van Der Kuijp—who is also affiliated with the University’s South Asia Initiative—said he did not know what specifically Summers was referring to in the interview. “We are looking forward to learning more about the plans of the University...
...standard space-time calculations, the four members of the family occupy the same three-bedroom home in Van Nuys, Calif., but psychologically each exists in his or her own little universe. Georgina, 51, who works for a display-cabinet maker, is tidying up the living room as Bronte works, not that her daughter notices. Stephen, 49, who juggles jobs as a squash coach, fitness trainer, event planner and head of a cancer charity he founded, has wolfed down his dinner alone in the kitchen, having missed supper with the kids. He, too, typically spends the evening on his cell phone...
...break her, but it sure leaves a dent." Learn to Let Go is more philosophical than narrative, but who knew Buddhist thought had so much jazz and funk in it? The CD is an impressive achievement for the 32-year-old Torontonian, who spends her days traveling in a van full of instruments making house calls to teach music to children...