Statesmanship is the art of accommodating interests, of dialog and compromise. Bold leadership requires an appreciation for the democratic process. We don’t just trust our leaders to make the right decisions; we trust the process to work properly, so that different views are represented and decisions are made using the best available information.

This article flows from a simple assumption. Barack Obama will be elected the 44th President of the United States, and on January 20th, 2009 he will assume said office.

The small crowd that trickled in for Theater Intime’s Saturday night “service” was greeted by altar servers handing out bulletin-style programs and invited to enjoy an evening of readings by Father Eddie, applause from Brother Lawrence, and…a basketball game with Death, a stationary bicycle torture device, and gunshots ...

During the vice-presidential debate, Sarah Palin was asked twice if she wanted to respond to Joe Biden’s accusation that the subprime mortgage crisis was attributable to the deregulation that John McCain and other Republicans had actively supported since George Bush took the White House. She chose at each moment ...

Over time, people get to know which eating clubs are best for them, but in case you haven’t done that yet (and are still feeling a little lost on the Street at night), I’ve created a guide for people (especially a freshman) to follow so that they can decide what kind of eating club they want to go into depending on the kind of night that they want to have.

“Do you see those women standing by the river, their reflections cut up by the waves, under the shadow of pierless piles?”

Songs like “Crying” and “Love Dog” are the highlights of the album, fusing the classic feel of TVOTR with innovations that are simple, yet foreign enough to excite the listener.

Having set out this week to write an article about Stephenie [sic] Meyer's Twilight series of young adult vampire novels, I was determined to, for once in my life, do a legitimate reporting job and read at least one of the books. However, my foray into the teen section ...

For Poland, Belorussia, and Ukraine, then, Russia remains a hungry, imperialist bear.

HE MAKE IT RAIN HE MAKE IT RAIN HE MAKE IT RAIN HE MAKE IT RAIN—GEORGE BUSH
“[T]his is a final verdict on the failed economic policies of the last eight years... that essentially said that we should strip away regulations, consumer protections, let the market run wild ...

Both of them are B and T-ers who regularly retreat to New York to escape the banality of their suburban existences, and, of course, both of them are music junkies with the same rad taste in sweet tunes.