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...anecdote has fostered a mix-and-match parlor game. Nixon: first-rate mind, second-class temperament. Reagan: second-rate mind, first-class temperament. Perhaps only Lincoln tops the class in both categories. But as we go down the homestretch in this presidential election, voters seem to be making up their minds as much by evaluating the dispositions of the candidates as their position papers. Voting for President is the most intimate vote we ever make; we're deciding whom we want in our living room for the next four years...
...what prosperity [Oct. 13]? For more than 20 years, working- and middle-class Americans have seen their jobs go overseas, wages diminish and savings disappear; they've had retirement funds stolen by companies going bankrupt or merging, and health care made unavailable as a result of cost. Suggesting that borrowing to live is the cause of the Wall Street collapse when the 400 richest people in the U.S. have as much money as several million average citizens shows ignorance of the greed and avarice controlling this country. Paul A. Heller, WASHINGTON, MICH...
Choosing new members isn’t easy. Because the groups are so small—typically capped at 15 or 16—the turnover can be extremely high. If a given graduating class has a lot of singers, half the group can disappear at the end of a school year. Members also need to consider not just the quality of the auditioner, but the group’s need to fill specific voice parts based on those who’ve graduated...
...early-90s Don Henley covers, but rather from the camaraderie of each group that can’t help but manifest itself onstage. And it is this transparent enjoyment of the members that sustains Harvard’s a cappella community and ensures renewed investment with each incoming class. People may like the songs, but they cherish the experience...
...another turn: as bad, and maybe worse. In Europe, it once taught that Jews were not to be trusted. Now, in Levittown, it implies that every Muslim is a terrorist. In its softer form, this racism cautions us to stick with our own—that identity outweighs both class and convictions. One woman I met worried that Obama would leverage the presidency against whites. “It’s the reckoning,” she said simply.The racism of fear is subtler and more insidious than the kind of our past. It thrives on silence and political...