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...Much of this outreach is reminiscent of the famous Lyndon Johnson quote about then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover: "it?s probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in." The politicians hope that by developing a close relationship with like-minded blogs, the bloggers will feel more like part of the team and will temper their criticism. But even friendly blogs aren't easy to satisfy - as Pelosi found out after her Daily Kos encounter. Democratic aides complain that Matt Stoller, a blogger for mydd.com, another popular liberal site, never seems satisfied...
Investigative reporter Jack Anderson made a 50-year career of annoying officialdom. President Nixon put him near the top of his enemies list, prompting a wry and very Andersonian response: "Maybe it was alphabetical." With characteristic restraint, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover said the columnist was "lower than the regurgitated filth of vultures." But Anderson has now performed a feat of Mau-Mauing perhaps unique among all muckrakers: he is irritating the government from the grave. You see, Anderson died four months...
...schoolers everywhere, they have arranged themselves by type: jocks, preps, cheerleaders, dorks, punks and gamers, all with tables of their own. But when they are finished chugging the milk and throwing Tater Tots at one another, they will drift out to their classes and slouch together through lessons on Edgar Allan Poe and Pythagoras. It's the promise of American public education: no matter who you are or where you come from, you will be tugged gently along the path of learning, toward graduation and an open but hopeful future...
...poetry editor, over her release of previously unpublished poetry by Elizabeth Bishop, calling the manner of Quinn’s editing and publication “reprehensible.” According to The New York Times, Vendler’s scathing review of “Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts and Fragments” in the April 3 issue of The New Republic marks a “literary clash of titans.” “The real poems will outlast these, their maimed and stunted siblings,” Vendler wrote about...
...gringo migration grows, so do real estate prices. Ocean-view lots and houses in Costa Rica start at $200,000 today and range up to seven figures, says Edgar Santamaría, regional director for Century 21. So retirees in Costa Rica are moving to Guatemala and Nicaragua, the latest frontier, where similar plots cost a tenth of that. But home building can move at a tropical pace: 18 months after Sadlier and Budinger bought their house, and a year after they were supposed to have moved in, they're still waiting for the builders to wrap. "Mańana might mean...