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Like so much in this election cycle, tonight's scheduled presidential debate in Oxford, Miss., is historic: never in the 48-year history of televised debates has a presidential face-off been so much in doubt mere hours before it was supposed to commence. Such is the depth of the nation's financial crisis and the creativity - selfless or craven, depending on your point of view - that until this morning, we didn't know if Jim Lehrer would have anyone to pose questions...
...Style: Polished, confident, focused. Fully prepared, and able to convey a real depth of knowledge on nearly every issue. He was unhurried, and rarely lost his train of thought even when the debate wended and winded - and uttered far fewer of his trademark, distracting, "ums." At times, however, Obama revealed the level of his preparation by faltering over a rehearsed answer. He seemed to deliberately focus on the moderator and the home audience, with McCain as an afterthought - except when on the attack. Chose to avoid humor, for the most part, in favor of a stern demeanor...
...camp in Greenland. NEEM stands for North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling (the acronym is Danish, as are the leaders of the project), and the scientists are digging deep into the Greenland ice--more than a mile and a half deep to be precise--to try to understand its pedigree. Depth is time, and the lower you go, the further back in history you travel. As ice formed in Greenland, year after cold year, bits of atmosphere were trapped in the layers. Drilling into the ice and fishing out samples--ice cores--that contain tiny bubbles of that ancient...
...satisfaction of a martyr that Atta can finally feel his bowels start to move. Religion is shit, Amis is saying, and yet he is doing it in the most insensitive way—exploiting an event that should be treated with the utmost respect and seriousness. For the depth of his understanding of the problems facing the post-9/11 world, Amis has very little to offer by way of solution. “Opposition to religion already occupies the high ground, intellectually and morally,” he says. “People of independent mind should now start...
Some athletes started their college careers at Harvard, unremarkably, before thriving elsewhere. Much has been made of Andrew Hatch, a quarterback who couldn’t crack the top of the Harvard depth chart as a freshman and is now starting for the No. 5 LSU Tigers. Similarly, Zach Putchel and Shay Doron brought their basketball skills to larger campuses, Minnesota and Maryland, respectively, after beginning in Cambridge...