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...Harvard College was the best seven years of my life,” said Corker, the original fun czar, alluding to the total time he has spent at Harvard...
...witnessed an on-stage exorcism by a local champion known as the “Air Apostle.” In the face of his all-consuming “airness” I realized I had not earned the right to call myself an air guitarist. Yet.I spent the ensuing month preparing for the next local competition. At that point, however, I was still a nonbeliever, consoling myself with the delusion that my budding love of air guitar was of the ironic sort.I was forced to abandon this stance after a particularly aggressive attempt to perfect...
...questions about his professional career, Rudd has a tendency to overplay his breadth of experience. A week after he became leader, Rudd's eight years in Parliament had stretched to "nearly a decade." A diplomat from 1981 to 1988, Rudd was sometimes based in Canberra and could not have "spent seven or eight years representing Australian embassies overseas," as he told one interviewer. Rudd left the foreign service to work in Queensland politics as a Labor adviser. He was that state's top bureaucrat when Wayne Goss was Premier. After he failed in his attempt to enter federal politics...
...Howard's strengths are his conviction, discipline, competence, modesty and sobriety. He's boring, perhaps, but trustworthy. A safe pair of hands. In Rudd's message matrix, Howard is old, tricky, dull and fixed, while Rudd is experienced, clever, serious and balanced. But before he had spent even a full day in his new role, Rudd was telling radio broadcaster Alan Jones about his plans for the "alternative ministry." "I just want to be systematic, methodical, think it through, talk to my colleagues," Rudd said. "I think that's the right thing to do. John Howard would do the same...
...fully annealed killer who emerges from this process is a cold and deliberate thing. The time he's spent rehearsing his carnage is a big part of what causes the actual execution of it to appear so disciplined and free of emotion - or even pleasure. That, however, does not mean that mass murder is conducted entirely without feeling. For the killer, the powerlessness that came from a sense of victimization has been replaced by its perfect opposite - a heady experience that may produce an implacable serenity on the one hand, or the eerily jocular banter that surveillance tapes picked...