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While residents call their fight a David-vs.-Goliath battle, the village may soon be forced to pocket its slingshot. Last month a county judge dissolved an injunction that had prevented Chicago from razing the acquisition area until the environmental impact could be measured. Unless an appeals court steps in as Bensenville's 11th-hour savior, the path is clear for the bulldozers to start rolling. And while 14 million cubic yd. (11 million cubic m) of dirt have already been moved in the reclamation, a small plot of sacred soil continues to stoke debate: the project's footprint covers...
...fiction." Studies support her: teens are less susceptible to media firestorms that galvanize the grownups, like those set off by a famous pregnant person or a seminaked tween star. But when most outlets say the same thing, the effect can be overwhelming. "We call this the drip-drip vs. the drench effect," says Brown...
...real," says Bill Steiner, the RNC's director of strategy. "But I actually think what it's for is to cover up some of their weakness in targeted states like Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Ohio. States that Democrats can't afford to lose. This is about quality vs. quantity...
...different, and that a combination of their shared values might be enough to unite a sweeping new majority. In so doing, he engages in a little willful bifurcation, implying that ‘ordinary Americans’ are the victims, not the agents, of a climate of red-vs.-blue rancor, taking Michaels Moore and Savage to task without conceding that each man has an audience of eager millions...
...Rolling Stone, GQ, People, Vanity Fair and Men's Vogue. So far this year, Obama has graced TIME's cover seven times, compared with three for McCain and one for his running mate, Sarah Palin. Newsweek has placed Obama-focused stories on the cover eight times in 2008, vs. four for McCain. "The press decided the campaign was going to be about Obama," Mark Salter, McCain's close adviser and co-author of his books, said last month. "There was nothing we could do about that. The race is as we found...