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Slate Magazine - Sep 17, 2008
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.—They're an unlikely trio: the earnest, affectless professional in the bland dark pantsuit; the stunning blonde in the lipstick-red shift dress; and the elegant, cerebral brunette in the slim pants …
Slate Magazine - Sep 2, 2008
Five a.m. is an ugly hour, but it is the unofficial whistle blow during this convention week. Staffers all over the city are up and on conference calls, or hustling out to do morning media made just that much more …
Slate Magazine - Aug 29, 2008
My favorite non-prime-time moment Thursday night: when Invesco Field, 80,000 strong, started doing "the wave" and continued going round and round, while the delegates, holding their signs high, rotated in sync like …
Slate Magazine - Aug 25, 2008
Fresh off the plane, still smelling like Manhattan in August, I can discern in the thin Denver air the faint ozone tang of righteousness. Stepping out onto this mile-high plateau of a city, like a rabbit on a helipad …
Slate Magazine - Aug 20, 2008
HARGEYSA, Somalia—Two of the five presidential candidates in the breakaway state of Somaliland have a Franklin D. Roosevelt-style "new deal" as part of their campaign platform. Roosevelt's popularity isn't a …
Slate Magazine - Aug 18, 2008
Near the end of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's resignation speech, the former commando's voice quavered, and it seemed he might break down on-screen. The address, broadcast live, had lasted roughly an hour …
Slate Magazine - Aug 5, 2008
JAITU, FARIDKOT DISTRICT, India—Jitinder's motorcycle pulled up in front of a concrete arch that had been draped with cloth banners printed with messages about pesticide poisoning and cancer. [more ...]
Slate Magazine - Jul 15, 2008
Doug Feith—former undersecretary of defense for policy—has been described as an "intellectual engine" (by his former boss Don Rumsfeld) and, famously, "the fucking stupidest guy on the face of the earth" (by Gen. Tommy …
Slate Magazine - Jul 10, 2008
ULYANOVSK, Russia—On a humid Sunday afternoon in late June, about 100 couples clutching newborn babies filed into the Lenin Memorial overlooking the wide banks of the Volga River. This mammoth concrete slab of Soviet …
Slate Magazine - Jun 26, 2008
Two hostile witnesses are better than one. This we learn today on Capitol Hill from the mashup of David Addington, the vice president's consiglieri, and John Yoo, author of the 2002 and 2003 torture memos. Appearing …