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...January, that Clinton had belatedly discovered the importance of openness and humanity. There was the press conference she ended by giving MSNBC's Chris Matthews, one of her longtime media tormentors, a pat on the cheek. There were the near-tears. I expected she would continue in that successful vein, but her campaign was immediately hijacked by her husband, who disastrously held center stage for weeks. She clenched up again after that: Bill was all anyone wanted to talk about and she couldn't. Her February nosedive ensued...
...that continues throughout. She simultaneously evokes and subverts President Lyndon B. Johnson’s 1965 speech “The American Promise.” In Badu’s opinion, its promise of dignity for all men remains unfulfilled. The rest of the album continues in this vein. “New Amerykah” discusses everything from racial inequality to the Iraq war. “Twinkle,” which starts as a soulful rap about a lack of socioeconomic progress in the African American community, ends with Howard Beale’s words from...
...began in the late 1970s and continue through today, as the state's once formidable steel, automobile and rubber products sectors have seen plant after plant close down, move overseas and not return. Ohio was in Republican hands for much of the 1980s and 1990s; it lacks the broad vein of white, affluent liberals that have helped lift Obama to victories in Connecticut or Maryland; in Ohio, affluent whites tend to be Republican. In 2006, the state elected its first Democratic governor, Ted Strickland, in a generation. Most polls, at the present time, show Clinton 10 to 20 points ahead...
...Eagles’ wings clipped and their fervent traveling support silenced, the Crimson went on to dominant proceedings in the singles. No. 3 Omodele-Lucien—in his fourth dual of the day—demolished Sechrist, 6-2, 6-2, while No. 1 Kumar continued his rich vein of form against Nolan, the senior powering to a 6-3, 6-4 win. The contest was salted away by No. 5 Will Guzick, as the freshman hit a delicate lob to clinch a 6-4, 6-1 victory. “Today was awesome,” said Kumar...
...paint a picture of an America that’s ready to crumble.More of the same on “Gasoline,” where Crow, narrating a future oil shortage, takes a swing at “Those bastards up in Washington / Afraid of popping that greed vein.” She also draws our attention to the problem of climate change—the year is 2017 and, with the “sun… growing hotter,” London is suffering “sweltering heat.” There’s no question...