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...Election Day nears, all this provides some context for foreign journalists as we try to scythe our way through the forests of spin and unanswered questions which surround any modern election campaign. Are the polls right? How big a factor is race? What impact could a huge youth vote have...
...With these factors in mind, we wholeheartedly endorse Senator Barack Obama of Illinois for President. Unlike Bush, Obama is a man who has profound respect for ideas, facts, and knowledge. As a state senator, Senator, and presidential candidate, he has proven himself more than willing to surround himself with experts and engage with them...
...remote to work. But once we had the game on, it was worth the slight bruising: the colors were sensational and bright; the players, larger than life. I had lugged a pair of speakers up from the basement and connected them to my sound system for the full surround-sound effect, so when the band struck up the Michigan fight song ("Hail! to the victors valiant/ Hail! to the conqu'ring heroes"), Dorfman, an alumnus, brushed away a tear. Emboldened, I marveled at the superior picture quality. "Supposedly, the reds are redder," I said, pointing at the ruby ESPN logo...
...Women Written and directed by Diane English; rated PG-13; out now There's not even one male in this update of a Clare Boothe Luce play. But the men aren't missed, what with all the dames who surround Meg Ryan's Mary Haines, the doing-it-all mom whose spouse is doing someone else. More authentic than the femme films of summer, if a little less...
...Indeed, nature has survived and prospered in the subtropical habitats that surround Brazil's second city. Nobody actually gets eaten by snakes, but more than a few Cariocas have come across them on tile porches and asphalt highways, lost and disoriented by the sounds and smells of a modern metropolis...