Vijay Narayanan on March 28th, 2008

Barack Obama: “Yes, we can!” Hillary Clinton: “Yes, we scam!” (Wow, this is becoming some kind of a feature! Here is Politics, in four words)

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Vijay Narayanan on March 26th, 2008

The IHT’s David Brooks on why Hillary Clinton insists on protracting the primary season. For nearly 20 years, she has been encased in the apparatus of political celebrity. Look at her schedule as first lady and ever since. Think of the thousands of staged events, the tens of thousands of times she has pretended to [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on March 25th, 2008

I remember reading a long time ago an article in “Word Power” titled Classroom Classics. The author lists some of the schoolboy howlers that make grading exam papers fun. After all, don’t they say English is a funny language? Here is a sampling: An unmarried woman is known as a sinister A hamlet is a [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on March 23rd, 2008

Rafael Benitez, the Liverpool manager, said earlier this week that Javier Mascherano was the new Roy Keane. In attempting to live up to his manager’s expectations, the Argentinian failed rather badly, by evoking only the bad side of the former United captain. Mascherano got himself sent off in the first half. Liverpool fans would have [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on March 21st, 2008

Supporters of Hillary Clinton: “Help Hillary make history!” Supporters of Barack Obama: “Help make Hillary history!”

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