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    Published: 02/8/10

    Tea Party Supported by a Third of Iowans

    By  Bruce Drake

    A third of Iowans say they support the Tea Party movement while 45 percent do not and 22 percent are undecided, according to a Des Moines Register poll conducted Jan. 31 - Feb. 3. That third is constituted by 49 percent of independents, 34 percent of Republicans and 17 percent of Democrats. But perhaps more important than the numbers of Tea Party sympathizers is the fact that the poll found them to be "more energized than the average likely Iowa voter." Three-quarters of them say they will definitely vote in the next elections, a number comparable to the 73 percent of Republicans, but ...

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    Published: 02/8/10

    Liz Christman, Enemy of the Passive Voice, Who Rocked Some Jaunty Hats

    By  Melinda Henneberger
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    My writing teacher and friend Elizabeth Christman, who wore a spiffy new suit and hat on the first day of every semester and was one of the finest humans ever, died last week at age 96. To be honest, I am completely bereft. Miss Christman, professor emeritus of American studies at the University of Notre Dame, was a literary agent in New York who read "The Catcher in the Rye" when it was still in manuscript form, and once took Agatha Christie shopping for a bathing suit. But that was before she went back to school at the unheard of age of 52, to pursue a doctorate and a dream -- to teach ...

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    Published: 02/8/10

    Is Obama's Search for 'Common Ground' Real?

    By  Robert Schmuhl
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    In the stagecraft of statecraft, Barack Obama keeps searching for his leading role. Throughout much of his first year as president, he continued to portray himself as he had in his campaign for the White House. The cool, cerebral, controlled figure of the hustings moved into the Oval Office -- but after a few months his approval ratings started to plummet and critics began to question his approach. Could a "cool" temperament appear frosty when some fire and passion seemed more appropriate? Was "cerebral" too much like an academic seminar of endless, inconclusive conversation? When Obama ...

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    Published: 02/6/10

    Mass. State Senate President Therese Murray Responds to EMILY's List Criticism

    By  Melinda Henneberger
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    In the interest of furthering debate and examination of key political issues, below is a response from Massachusetts state Senate President Therese Murray to an article by Jill Lawrence that questioned the support EMILY's List gave Martha Coakley in the Massachusetts special Senate election won by Scott Brown. Much has been said about the special election in Massachusetts. Yes, it was a blow to health care reform and a disappointment to Democrats both nationally and locally. There's a variety of reasons that will continue to be debated about the loss, but Jill Lawrence, in a recent article ...

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    Published: 02/2/10

    Oscar Drama: Cameron, Ex-Wife Bigelow Battle for Best Director

    By  Luisita Lopez Torregrosa
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    You couldn't have scripted this one any better, or bigger. Only in Hollywood, where the bizarre passes for the mundane and weird mashups are the stuff of everyday life, would you dream up this crazy scenario. In one corner we've got the biggest money-making movie of all time, "Avatar." In the other corner, we've got a small-budget film about a war-addicted bomb disposal expert, "The Hurt Locker." Buoying "Avatar" to the blue heavens is one of the top money-making movie directors of all time, James Cameron (remember "Titanic"). Firing up the tightly wrought "The Hurt Locker" is one of the most ...

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    Published: 02/1/10

    Beau Biden and the Trouble With the 17th Amendment

    By  Garrett Epps
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    The Democrats have had another hard week. On Monday, they learned that Beau Biden, son of the vice-president, has discreetly chosen not to run for the Senate seat they'd been keeping warm for him. Thus one more Senate seat the Democrats had thought of as safe is up for grabs in the fall. This comes after the loss of Ted Kennedy's seat in Massachusetts and amid a growing sense that even President Obama's old seat in Illinois could fall in November to a Republican, Mark Kirk. ...

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    Published: 01/30/10

    Where We All Walk: Chapman, Hinckley, and Unintended Consequences

    By  James Grady
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    J. D. Salinger's slide into that last good night sent my mind to assassins.And suddenly, it's Dec. 8, 1980, night on a New York city sidewalk where a chunky Mark Chapman draws his Hawaiian-bought Charter Arms .38 and from spitting distance blasts four out of five hollow point bullets into ex-Beatle John Lennon's back. As Lennon bleeds out on the sidewalk and Yoko Ono screams and sirens wail closer, the assassin reaches into his pocket, pulls out and reads Salinger's most famous book, Catcher In The Rye.FADE IN: Washington D.C. March 30, 1981, a cool spring day. Boyishly good looking but a ...

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    Published: 01/30/10

    For J.D. Salinger -- With Love and Squalor

    By  Walter Shapiro
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    Somewhere in England, I so want to believe, lives a jazz-loving, relentlessly honest, incisively bright, deeply sentimental 78-year-old woman named Esmé who long ago befriended an American GI in a tea shop on the eve of the D-Day invasion. They only talked for half an hour -- this self-confident and vulnerable 13-year-old girl, a war orphan, and this Army sergeant, who, in civilian life, had published a few fledgling short stories -- chaperoned by her governess and her young brother, Charles. They never met again, although they exchanged letters, but somehow this chance encounter mattered ...

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    Published: 01/29/10

    Chaos Theory - The Obama Whisperers

    By  Robert and Donna Trussell
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    Published: 01/28/10

    A Self-Reverential State of the Union Address

    By  Peter Wehner
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    President Obama's State of the Union address should unnerve Democrats in Congress and throughout the country. It was one of the worst State of the Union addresses in modern times – a stunning thing for a man who won the presidency in large measure based on the power and uplift of his rhetoric. For those who hoped the president would use this speech as a pivot to the center, a la Bill Clinton in the aftermath of the 1994 mid-term elections, the speech was a major letdown. Much of what he offered up last night was symbolic. His budget freeze on a subset of domestic discretionary spending ...

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