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...country is on the wrong track has gone right off the cliff. McCain's best hope in the economic crisis is for voters to seek his Washington experience. His gambit to become a powerful voice for a solution could pay dividends--if it works. Obama now has a permanent backdrop from which to argue for change and link McCain with President Bush. Temperamentally, Obama might just be the most even-keeled presidential candidate in a generation. He was unfazed by the McCain-Palin poll surge and self-assured when addressing the economic challenges, soothing anxious voters looking for a leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Page | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...Feed the Animals,” is no exception. Within the context of Girl Talk’s mashups, no songs or artists are out of bounds. On “In Step,” Nirvana’s gothic “Lithium” becomes the backdrop to an upbeat jump rope chant, and though Fleetwood Mac wouldn’t top many dance floor set lists, there they are, at the top of “Let Me See You,” blended seamlessly into Trina?...

Author: By Nayeli E. Rodriguez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Girl Talk | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

...evening he'll speak in the town hall, in a room overlooking "Sock Man," a bronze figure naked except for one sock and a strategically positioned leaf. It's a monument to the hosiery industry in this central England town - not quite Berlin's Siegessäule, the portentous backdrop to Barack Obama's big foreign policy speech in July. David Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party and (barring a dramatic reversal in the polls) Britain's Prime Minister-in-waiting, is wary of appearing hubristic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Cameron: UK's Next Leader? | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

...Today there is only one big decision to be made, and the job belongs to a TV programmer, not a political boss. Conventions are little more than soundstages now. Everything from the backdrop to the musical choices asks the question, Who is the convention trying to reach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Obama Be a Working-Class Hero? | 8/21/2008 | See Source »

...business - you're working so hard and things are moving so fast that you don't really stop and think, Wow, look at all this money that's coming in. You think more, Wow, I can finally afford a dedicated sound person. I can finally afford a backdrop. I can finally afford to get out of the station wagon and into a van and into a bus and onto a plane. You don't really have time to enjoy it, which is a pity, because that's when you should enjoy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Janis Ian | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

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