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...trick for some Democrats is to be pro gay while shunning gay marriage, the goal of Republicans will be to support a marriage ban without heading down the cultural warpath the way Pat Buchanan and Pat Robertson did at the 1992 G.O.P. Convention--a tactic that helped lose George H.W. Bush the election. When George W. Bush said last week he would do "what is legally necessary to defend the sanctity of marriage," he sidestepped references to any constitutional amendment...
People in most states aren't as steeped in politics as the voters of New Hampshire and Iowa, and aren't likely to start paying serious attention until primary day is upon them. The trick for each candidate except Dean could be to last long enough to be there when they do. Even the other campaigns concede privately that if Dean hasn't stumbled by then--and particularly, if he has won both Iowa and New Hampshire--the race could be all but over before the other candidates get to test their appeal outside the political-hothouse environment...
...seeking so much as direction, assurance that we’re not just wandering aimlessly, but using our freedom creatively. Many of us are here because we enjoy being slightly on edge, slightly uncomfortable—that’s how we know we’re learning. The trick is to find that edge on the surface of something more familiar, so that we’re still oriented even as we’re exploring. Thursday night, on a whim, I went to see a play at the Loeb theater. The play was three hours long...
Yale’s social calendar is brimming with an extensive offering of residential college-sponsored theme parties: Liquor Treats (an alcoholic rendition of Trick or Treating taking students from college to college), Morse and Ezra Stiles Colleges’ Casino Night and Jonathan Edwards College’s Spider Ball. Exotic Erotic, a theme party boasting the motto, “the less you wear, the less you pay,” and Inferno, a sizzling Halloween costume party, were both recently canceled by the masters of Timothy Dwight College and Pierson College, respectively, because they...
When Andy Wardley first started entering kite-flying competitions back in the mid-1990s, hardly anyone was doing elaborate tricks. Instead, judges evaluated contestants on such technical skills as precision steering and control. Part of the problem was that kites weren't designed to let flyers do things like back spins and flips. So Wardley decided to make his own model, the Airbow, inspired by the tetrahedron-shaped kite invented by Alexander Graham Bell. At once stable and easy to fly, it allows trick flyers to perform stunts like stopping and restarting in midair. "It's like flying a helicopter...