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...nomination and trying to save money, are dropping out. Three states--Colorado, Utah and Kansas--have canceled their primaries for next year. Missouri and Tennessee are considering doing the same. In 2000 George W. Bush effectively secured the nomination after only nine states had voted. Al Gore was the victor after only two primaries. By the time Missouri voted March 7, turnout was just 19%. With a $1 billion budget gap forcing state workers to unscrew every third light bulb to save on electricity, some Missouri legislators say spending $3.7 million on a primary doesn't make sense. Politics...
...build a “hegemonic” empire of subject-states: Voters wouldn’t stand for it. We Americans tend to be an inward-looking bunch, wary of expending blood and treasure on overseas adventures that are unrelated to national security. As military historian Victor Davis Hanson emphasizes, U.S. power is ultimately not restrained by “China, Russia, or the European Union, but rather by the American electorate itself—whose reluctant worries are chronicled weekly by polls that are eyed with fear by our politicians.” For that matter, recent polls...
...only structure to the day was the meal schedule: breakfast at 7:30 a.m., lunch at noon and dinner at the faintly ridiculous time of 5:30 p.m. The cook was an ebullient, roly-poly Czech named Victor, who had had a previous career as a lounge singer in the U. S. The cuisine was the only category in which the Ingrid Oldendorff failed to match the standard of the cruise ships I've sailed with: the meals were ample, well cooked and tasty enough but monotonous, with an emphasis on meat and potatoes and garnished alternately by pickles...
...After war broke out, a perceptible gloom descended on the ship, so the master ordered a party, a barbecue on the portside deck. Victor outdid himself, orchestrating a splendid, meaty feast with all the fixings. He consulted me, as the ship's temporary resident Texan, for advice about making barbecue sauce; in the end, he stretched it with leftover watermelon. (Strange, but perfectly good form: as any Texan will tell you, you can throw whatever you like into a barbecue sauce...
...RAISING VICTOR VARGAS. The summer heat parallels the rising passions of the characters in this teen romance that marks writer-director Peter Sollett’s feature film debut. Sollett plunks his camera down in Manhattan’s East Village and spends some time sketching out the area’s culture and values, particularly as they relate to the relationships budding between three pairs of lovebirds. The inexperienced cast is winning raves from critics; Sollett had used many of the same actors in a short film that he made while studying at NYU. Raising Victor Vargas screens...