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...covers sell books?I wouldn't buy a book simply because I like the cover. I would pick it up. The jacket can call your attention to it. But in that sense, Oprah Winfrey is worth all the jackets in the world. A jacket is basically trying to do what she does all on her own. Click here for a gallery of Chip Kidd's greatest book jackets...
...political passion, albeit childishly. I waited until my McCain-lovin' parents left town, then put Obama signs all over their front lawn. True, there was a verbal barrage when my father returned, stunned by the signs of Obama love. But for this 40-year-old liberal, it was well worth it. Jennifer Loman, CHICO, CALIF...
Christmas came early for the Harvard Art Museum. Arts patron and former Harvard curator Emily Rauh Pulitzer has recently announced a donation of $200 million worth of art and an additional $45 million—historically, the Harvard Arts Museum’s largest ever donation. The $45 million will go towards the costs of renovating the Fogg Art Museum while the art, mostly twentieth century, will give Harvard’s curator another 31 pieces to display once the renovations are done...
...these letters have seized upon the apparently shocking fact that Senator Obama’s middle name is a name common in the Middle East—among Muslims! These letters, of course, appeal only to those willing to inhale alarmist propaganda without a moment’s worth of fact-checking. Yet the true disappointing consequence of these outlandish suggestions is that the defenders of Obama’s good name unwittingly dig in to positions they should never have taken. To defend Obama as John McCain did—as not an Arab...
...President Bush. If you wanted to run against President Bush, you should have run four years ago.” Even though Obama has demonstrated an aptitude to think on his feet, he simply did not have a comeback for this zinger. It is worth noting that the studio audience, which was supposed to remain absolutely silent, exclaimed and gasped at the line. Those watching could even see a look of glory in McCain’s eyes—the look a major league batter gets when he knows by the feel of the baseball hitting the bat that...