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There is a better way, a 12-step program for fixing our method of paying for elections. It's not perfect, but it's a start...
Stewart became the butt of a thousand impressionists for his familiar "Waaaaal," which sounded like a trombonist running out of breath and purpose. He cared little for the racking discipline of the Method; he would simply stand on his mark and stammer out his lines. He wore his renown comfortably, like a pair of overalls, and enjoyed as scandal-free a life as any top Hollywood star. "My husband," said Stewart's one and only wife Gloria, "is much too normal to be an actor." The man himself considered his job well done "if you can get through a film...
...main lines of politicized inquiry converge in the Modern Language Association, the 30,000-member group of scholars, many of them devoted to grievance politics as a critical method. For a while in the early '90s, reporters would cover its annual conference as a kind of fascinating academic comedy club, where nutty professors delivered papers on "Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl." Three years ago, when Alter's group came together, some of the biggest names in American letters signed on, including scholars Alfred Kazin and Roger Shattuck, novelist Cynthia Ozick, poet Donald Hall and the late Nobel laureate Joseph...
ARES VALLIS, Mars: That old space-travel cliche -- Houston, we have touchdown -- couldn't really apply to the Mars Pathfinder's inelegant method of landing by slamming into the planet at 55 miles per hour, then bouncing like a basketball up to as much as 150 feet in the air until coming to rest. Still, controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory were pleased. "It's been wonderfully dull," Flight Director Rob Manning said after the lander completed its seven-month journey. Whether the craft survived the impact intact was not immediately known, but NASA received radio signals from the Martian...
...jury votes for the death penalty, the sentence will not be carried out anytime soon. Both the guilty verdict and the death sentence can be appealed, and this process may take at least three or four years. Should the execution day come, the method will be lethal injection...