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...course, he can't count on their votes. The primaries are more than a year away, and Minnesotans don't like to be rushed. I ask one woman who has just requested Franken's autograph if she plans to support him, and she replies, "I haven't a clue...
...last stop of the night, Franken ends with a now perfected kicker: "And I can count on all of you?" Laughter ripples through the room. Franken chuckles too and then, as usual, goes further, deadpanning, "I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent. So thank you--it's now a moral obligation, and I'm holding you to it." The laughter is louder than ever...
...were folks who didn't don the love beads but buried them: ex-Greenpeacers who morphed into industry apparatchiks, utopians who left their kooky social experiments for banker's hours. But these aren't typically the kinds of journeys one makes suddenly--and in that sense they didn't count as epiphanies. There are lives that one slowly acquires, like a carapace. And sometimes these are the same lives that, in one deeply private moment of dead reckoning, get shed...
This year, Harvard students can count on a platinum-selling band to get them through this “semi-charmed kind of life...
...think [the homelessness count is] not necessarily a great barometer for the number of homeless people you might find out there on any given night, but it is helpful because it keeps people cognizant of the situation,” said Mallory R. Hellman ’08, who gathered data for the census and is the outreach director of the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter...