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Slate Magazine - Dec 31, 2007
Do I detect a tacit media conspiracy to make the Iowa caucuses inconclusive, and even irrelevant? I'm for that! ... P.S.: It's like the moment in mafia stories when the cops just get tired of the mobsters they've been …
Tagged: kausfiles
Slate Magazine - Dec 31, 2007
What with the president of France jetting off to Luxor, Egypt, to spend Christmas with a supermodel-turned-singer and things looking up in Iraq, 2008 looked all set to be more cheerful than 2007. But the assassination …
Tagged: foreigners
Slate Magazine - Dec 31, 2007
I called her Pinky. She called me Pooh Bear. As Aspen Institute seminars droned on, we'd scribble anagrams of the participants' names. "Had ingrain id," I jotted during one particularly tedious lunch while Indira …
Tagged: chatterbox
Slate Magazine - Dec 31, 2007
The first babies to be born in 2008 will have a chance to win savings bonds and other goodies from local businesses, not to mention get their wrinkly mugs in the paper. With so much on the line, how do doctors …
Tagged: explainer
Slate Magazine - Dec 31, 2007
One day after the Dec. 27 murder of Pakistan's former prime minister, Benazir Bhutto, the government of President Pervez Musharraf released a transcript (below) of a telephone call that blames her assassination on …
Tagged: hot document
Slate Magazine - Dec 31, 2007
Press pros on the ground (excitable Joe Klein,, Marc Cooper, the First Read crew) are convinced Huckabee's press conference today--in which he announced he was pulling a negative campaign spot and then showed it to the …
Tagged: kausfiles
Slate Magazine - Dec 31, 2007
Bloggers ponder the implications of Bhutto's son taking over her party, parse new video from the slain Pakistani leader's final moments and ponder Bloomberg's plan for bipartisanship. [more ...]
Tagged: today s blogs
Slate Magazine - Dec 31, 2007
The state of Iowa is a model of civic engagement. It regularly scores one of the highest voter turnout rates in most Novembers; its political system is largely free of corruption; and its court-supervised method of …
Tagged: politics
Slate Magazine - Dec 31, 2007
The barber chair becomes the hot seat. [more ...]
Tagged: trailhead
Slate Magazine - Dec 31, 2007
Rather than gorge on unreliable poll data, do yourself a favor and wait for the new Des Moines Register poll that comes out at the stroke of midnight. The poll, which last had Mike Huckabee and Barack Obama with narrow …
Tagged: election scorecard