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...then, at the last minute, he gets his act together and wins." That was true in his race for lieutenant governor of Massachusetts in 1982 and for the U.S. Senate in '84, and it was certainly true in Kerry's toughest campaign before 2004, his Senate race against Governor William Weld in '96. It is an enigma that cuts close to the essence of an intensely private man: Why does John Kerry require a near death experience to be an effective politician? I have a theory...
...guess you’d have to say I wasn’t a politician when I wrote the book,” Obama told New Yorker writer William Finnegan in May. “I wanted to show how and why some kids, maybe especially young black men, flirt with danger and self-destruction...
...buck. When this happens I usually roll out a toothy smile and an Arabic “Please uncle?” to try to avoid paying more. It usually works, though I hear that the drivers fleece many foreigners who don’t know the system. William M. Rasmussen ’04, a former Crimson news executive who is here working at the same newspaper that I am, once paid $10 for a trip that should have cost 50 cents. Novice...
...Habib ’07 is a social studies concentrator in Pforzheimer House. When not writing for the English-language Daily Star, she spends her time teaching William M. Rasmussen ’04 how to say, “I swear I am not a CIA or Mossad agent” in Arabic and picking up bad Lebanese habits like smoking Marlboro Lights, drinking highly caffeinated tea and sleeping in the afternoon...
BOSTON, Monday, July 26—Forgive me if I missed the modern-day equivalent of William Jennings Bryan’s “Cross of Gold” speech. But, on more than a few occasions between Miss New Mexico’s dreadful rendering of the Star Spangled Banner at the start of the Democratic National Convention’s first afternoon session and the beginning of nationwide broadcast coverage at 10 p.m., I wasn’t exactly paying overly careful attention...