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...growing tired of primetime, camera-crazed Kerry, to the extent that if he wishes to remain in elected office, he had better start striving earnestly to appeal to his constituents. They don’t want to hear about his quixotic quest to transform America into an ecological wonderland, and they could care less if he reaps positive national media coverage as a result. They want to hear him talk clearly about issues that directly affect them...
...one’s disposal, I could be devoting my time to learning about something more consequential than sports. While many of my peers at Harvard remain casual fans, most have already kicked sports down several notches on their list of priorities. But I am stuck in that wonderland of my youth, where my grandfather still brings home the New York Post every day and I, rather than explore issues of national importance like the death of Anna Nicole Smith, immediately flip the paper over and engross myself in box scores and betting lines.Although I am usually able to control...
...Reception” was a madhouse, a party even more hectic than and almost as nonsensical as the Mad Hatter’s tea party in “Alice in Wonderland.” It was pure fun, and a pleasure to be a guest...
...Reindeer, which was open for just 23 days and nights in the run-up to Christmas, was booked solid before it even existed. More than 11,000 lunch and dinner slots in a candlelit winter wonderland, complete with snow-dusted pine trees, were filled by Nov. 1, thanks to an October spot on YouTube, a viral e-mail campaign and word of mouth. It helped that the Reindeer's creators, Pablo Flack and David Waddington, who also helm an East End venue called Bistroteque, are particularly plugged in. A former fashion student turned restaurateur, Waddington studied at Central St. Martins...
...toward the hard-core revelers surrounding the band. It's way past dusk and it is still sweltering. The parade has ended and everyone around me is either tipsy or covered in foam or both. And then, just as I summon up the courage to jump in, Alice in Wonderland stops alongside me and scratches his beard. At 61 years old, Virgilio Borba has seen a few carnivals in his time, but blocos like this, he says, are almost like the old days. "Our lives are spent inside, in shopping malls, offices, gyms, apartment buildings," he says, remarkably thoughtfully...