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...such a combination," Petty said. "Unlike The New Yorker, where you have a certain style and standard, here the judging process is much more emotional. In some cases, the judges respond to the reality of the story; in other cases, they respond to really great writing." The winner of the July grand prize, as well as of category prizes in both July and October, was a letter carrier from Portland, Ore., named Murr Brewster, whose folksy commentary on low-rise jeans and other fashion trends won in "Style+Beauty+Body." (An excerpt: "rolling cumulonimbus mounds of flesh were thundering...
...bottom of all this, editor at large David Von Drehle--who makes his home in Kansas City, Mo.--took off in his family's dented minivan for a 750-mile (1,200 km) trip across the center of Missouri. Missouri, he notes, has backed the winner in every presidential election in the past 100 years except one. "I've done this sort of rolling interview before," he says, "and what struck me as different this time was that everyone seemed a little nervous to be talking politics." In general, David found a good number of blue collar white voters...
...WINNER OF THE WEEK: DEMOCRATS...
...ROUNDS ARE CREATED EQUAL The week's winner is based on the relative importance of each fight and by how much the winner takes each round...
Maybe Body of Lies will break the losing streak. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Roger Ferris, a fearless CIA operative roaming the Middle East, and Russell Crowe as his Stateside boss Ed Hoffman. The movie was scripted by William Monahan, Oscar winner for The Departed, and directed by Ridley Scott, who proved in Black Hawk Down that he knows how to detonate suspense in the bazaar of political ideas. More important, Body of Lies is based on David Ignatius' best seller, which casts Ferris as a good-guy hero, firmly in the spy-novel tradition, and makes him the agent...