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Throughout her grandson's campaign, Dunham declined to talk to reporters. She played bridge and followed the race closely on TV. "So long as you kids do well, Bar," she would tell her grandson, "that's all that really matters." Dunham's death on the eve of the election meant she would never see how well her grandson did. It's a tragedy she probably would have accepted with grace...
...expected to move into the double digits, I'm looking for a way to survive until you get us out of this mess. So here's what I'm thinking, and please do not tell my wife: I'm planning on turning my basement into a full-service karaoke bar...
Everyone knows karaoke is huge internationally. It's getting bigger in the U.S., thanks in part to the popularity of video games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band. Which means that my home karaoke bar will need to offer more than your average console. Hence my interest in a number of karaoke sites--and maybe cocktails made with Everclear--that could help make Quittner's Qaraoke Qorner a bustling home business...
...Harvard Law School Democrats packed the three floors of Tommy Doyle’s Pub. This crowd was much rowdier than the groups gathered at the IOP or Republican parties—the only items more common than beers in the room were Obama stickers. Screams flooded the bar every time CNN reported that Obama was leading McCain in any state. Around 11 p.m., CNN announced the news every viewing party had been waiting for: Obama had been elected the 44th president of the United States. The IOP crowd erupted into cheers and hugs, and people hoisted the Obama...
...could overreach, that Democratic congressional leaders are still unpopular, that this is still a center-right country. But it wasn't tonight. Obama will have the luxury of taking office at a time when the GOP is the AIG of electoral politics, when his predecessor has set the lowest bar since James Buchanan, when a supposedly conservative Administration just started nationalizing the banking system, when the public is desperate for change. What is it about tonight's results that suggests Obama should be afraid of progressive action on the cusp of a depression...