August

The Bradley Effect v. The Obama Effect

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.11.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Will Obama's white voter support in the polls be higher than his actual support on Election Day? Will this be a regional factor, or a nationwide factor? And how big a factor is it?

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Despite the Olympics, August Things I Can Do Without

Lea Lane | Posted 08.06.2008 | Living

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Lea Lane

August is more melancholy than October: farm stands with fragrant peaches and fresh corn, concerts under the stars, top-down drives, warm bay breezes, and twilight walks for Italian ices are all fading.

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August and the Wile E. Coyote Syndrome

Howard A. Rodman | Posted 07.09.2008 | Entertainment

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Howard A. Rodman

August, the new film I wrote, is a meditation on the slow boom, fast bust of the dotcom era. Josh Hartnett plays Tom, a Millionaire on Paper, who has the world in a bottle and the stopper in his right hand.

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Dame Hillary Clinton: the Black Knight

Chip Collis | Posted 04.23.2008 | Home

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Chip Collis

Clinton's ineffectual victories have become the pledged-delegate equivalent of having her legs hacked out from underneath her. Yet all the while she's trilling, "I'm invincible! Have at you then!"

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Sundance: the Tao of Swag

Howard A. Rodman | Posted 01.18.2008 | Entertainment

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Howard A. Rodman

The true purpose of swag is to make you wonder whether, just down the street, someone else isn't getting better swag, at a swag suite just a bit too exclusive for you to gain admittance to.

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