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...Nixon attacked McGovern as a liberal extremist, which wasn't exactly wrong. But the Democratic Party has become more moderate since the Clinton years, and in the past two presidential elections the G.O.P. has attacked Al Gore and John Kerry less as ideological radicals than as soulless opportunists, weather vanes willing to say whatever it took to win. As pollster Ruy Teixeira has noted, surveys in recent years show Democrats trailing the G.O.P. by more than 20 points when it comes to "know[ing] what they stand...
...minutes later, John McCarley, a weather-beaten cattleman with a deep drawl and a faded Yankees cap, echoed that analysis. "We're in an era where we need leadership," he said. "There will be social issues where we disagree, but ... we won't have a litmus test. He transcends that...
...took great strides to fix the problem fast,” said Daniel Z. Tanjeloff ’08 Co-Master Patricia O’Brien emphasized the speed with which the problem was addressed. “It was quite impressive how fast the sewage was removed. The weather was horrible, and the plumber was stuck in Harvard Square for quite a while. Through all that, they did a great job of cleaning up Lower Main,” she said. Badaracco added that the house was lucky the incident happened on a weekday before dining hours...
...Kida believes it's the scale of his sample that gives him the predictive edge over the government's Meteorological Agency, which tracks just 80 trees. And for a private company like Weather News, earning a reputation for accurate botanical prognostication can prove lucrative. "Our corporate clients are quite serious about getting it right," says Kida. "One employee of a very well-known company offered us money to get an accurate forecast because he was in charge of setting up the company hanami party, and getting the dates right is not a laughing matter...
...Neither is the havoc that global warming may be inflicting on the cherry blossoms. This has been the warmest winter on record in Tokyo, and, perhaps not coincidentally, March 20 was also the third-earliest blossoming ever recorded in the capital. Because cherry trees require a period of cold weather in January and February to break their dormancy, Kida worries that if the climate continues to warm, the blossom dates could become even more erratic, or blossoming could even cease altogether. That would certainly drive home the reality of global warming for ordinary Japanese. "Rising sea levels and a depleting...