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At the urging of his wife, Elizabeth, the Duke of York (known to the royal family as "Bertie") began to see speech therapist Lionel Logue in a desperate bid to cure his lifelong stammer. Little did the two men know that this unlikely friendship - between a future monarch and a commoner born in Australia - would ultimately save the House of Windsor from collapse.
"As enjoyable as the film, and then some."
The Clockwork Universe is the story of a band of men who lived in a world of dirt and disease but pictured a universe that ran like a perfect machine. A meld of history and science, this book is a group portrait of some of the greatest minds who ever lived as they wrestled with natures most sweeping mysteries. The answers they uncovered still hold the key to how we understand the world.
"It's a Wonder We Left the Dark Ages"
Few outsiders will ever witness the dark misdeeds of the Heavenly Host. And among this secret society, where exiled Georgian aristocrats gather to indulge their carnal desires, fewer still can match the insatiable appetite of their chief provocateur, the mysterious Viscount Rohan. Pursuit of physical pleasure is both his preferred pastime and his most pressing urge, until he encounters the fascination of a woman who won't be swayed.
"Loved It!"
Lady Madeline Matthews would rather shame herself than sacrifice her freedom – which is why, to avoid a marriage to an aging, lecherous lord, she seeks out the company of Logan Scott. A torrid affair with the notorious womanizer would surely condemn her in the eyes of good society.Though a legend in the bedchamber, Logan is, in truth, an intensely private man tormented by past betrayals. Now a forward little minx is disrupting his life with her vibrant charm and unspoiled beauty, a high-spirited enchantress completely at sea in London's sophisticated whirl.
"Engaging characters, too much conflict"
Consistently appearing on US and UK best-seller lists, C.J. Sansom's Matthew Shardlake mysteries have earned considerable critical acclaim, including a CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award. At the behest of a former servant to Catherine Parr, Shardlake travels to Portsmouth to investigate claims of unspeakable crimes committed upon a young ward of the court. There, Shardlake uncovers disturbing evidence even as England's continuing war with France rages around him.
"Another Matthew Shardlake mystery"
Even in Grundy, Alaska, its unusual to find a naked guy with a bear trap clamped to his ankle on your porch. But when said guy turns into a wolf, recent southern transplant Mo Wenstein has no difficulty identifying the problem.
"Good start to a new series."
Returning to Seattle from London following her last paranormal adventure, Harper is greeted with surprising news: The man who "killed" her has been murdered. His ghost could hold the key to valuable information about her father's ghostly imprisonment and her own murky past, making Harper desperate to find him. Tracking this ghost down, however, puts Harper on a path fraught with supernatural dangers in addition to some corporeal ones....
"The best one in the series so far"
Dancer is the erotically charged story of the Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev as told through the cast of those who knew him: there is Anna Vasileva, Rudi's first ballet teacher, who rescues her protege from the stunted life of his provincial town; Yulia, whose sexual and artistic ambitions are thwarted by her Soviet-sanctioned marriage; and Victor, the Venezuelan street hustler, who reveals the lurid underside of the gay celebrity set.
"Amazing prose and narration"
The residents of Alaska's largest national park are stunned by the death of one of their oldest members, 87-year-old Old Sam Dementieff…Even private investigator Kate Shugak. Sam, a lifelong resident, dubbed the "father" of all of the Park rats—even though he had no children of his own—was especially close to Kate, his niece, but even she is surprised to discover that in his will he's left her everything, including a letter instructing her simply to, "find my father.
John Wells may have left the CIA, but it hasn't left him. A mysterious call brings a surprise meeting with the aged monarch of Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah. "My kingdom is on a precipice," he tells Wells. "Powerful factions are plotting against me, and my own family is in danger. I don't know who I can trust, but I'm told I can trust you."
"Curses! Islamists foiled again!"
Deep in the stacks of Oxford's Bodleian Library, young scholar Diana Bishop unwittingly calls up a bewitched alchemical manuscript in the course of her research. Descended from an old and distinguished line of witches, Diana wants nothing to do with sorcery; so after a furtive glance and a few notes, she banishes the book to the stacks. But her discovery sets a fantastical underworld stirring, and a horde of daemons, witches, and vampires soon descends upon the library.
"A most terrific & non-typical treatment of Witches"
In a New York City fifty years in the future, Detective Eve Dallas tracks down those who break the law - including the ones sworn to uphold it. Eve Dallas and her partner, Peabody, are following up on a brutal, senseless crime - an elderly grocery owner killed by three stoned punks for nothing more than kicks and snacks. And for the first time, Peabody is primary detective on the case, which means she has to get used to a new level of authority and responsibility. Good thing she learned the ropes from a master like Eve. But after rounding up the perps, Peabody stumbles upon a much trickier situation.
"Treachery in Death"
New York Times best-selling author Richelle Mead takes readers back to the Otherworld, an embattled realm mystically entwined with our world--and ruled by one woman's dangerous choice. Shaman-for-hire Eugenie Markham is the best at banishing entities trespassing in the mortal realm. But as the Thorn Land's queen, she's fast running out of ways to end the brutal war devastating her kingdom. Her only hope: the Iron Crown, a legendary object even the most powerful gentry fear.
"Sorry I used my last credit this month on this one"
Half-vampire Cat Crawfield and her vampire husband, Bones, have fought for their lives, as well as for their relationship. But just when they've triumphed over the latest battle, Cat's new and unexpected abilities threaten to upset a long-standing balance.
With the mysterious disappearance of vampires, rumors abound that a species war is brewing. A zealot is inciting tensions between the vampires and ghouls, and if these two powerful groups clash, innocent mortals could become collateral damage.
Condemned and shunned for black magic, Rachel Morgan has three days to get to the annual witches' conference and clear her name, or be trapped in the demonic ever-after - forever after.
But a witch, an elf, a living vampire, anda pixy in one car, going across the country? Talk about a recipe for certain disaster, even without being the targets for assassination.
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The American Civil Liberties Union has asked for a second time that the Supreme Court invalidate Myriad Genetics Inc.'s patents on two genes associated with hereditary breast and ovarian cancers, the latest salvo in a case with broad consequences for the future of gene-based medicine.
The lawsuit against Myriad and the University of Utah Research Foundation, which hold patents that allow the company to control testing for the genes, alleges that the patents are illegal and restrict scientific research and patients' access to medical care.
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Saturday Night Live Recap: Rihanna Is Beautiful Like Fractals in the Sky
Anne Hathaway is merely endearing.
I've never quite understood why Anne Hathaway is such a divisive figure in popular culture, but ever since that regrettable gig hosting the Oscars two years ago, the community of Hathaway haters has crystalized. I guess because she comes off as very actressy? I can see that. I love when the show runs just slightly short and the host and cast are left with more time than usual for the goodbyes at the end; it can be a window into performers' real, unrehearsed personalities. Hathaway's brand of vamping involved a lot of breathless "I can't believe this is my LIFE!" stuff, calling Rihanna a "goddess," thanking the NBC pages, et cetera. It can be hard to take that brand of performative humility at face value. I tend to find her whole persona endearing, like when she thanked Katie Holmes and Claire Danes, I guess to stave off awkward interactions at the Golden Globes come January. And more importantly, for purposes of reviewing SNL, I have always found her to be incredibly game for whatever the show throws at her. Back for her third hosting gig — I will always remember her first appearance as the week that Kristen Wiig debuted Doonice — Hathaway fit right in, playing to her strengths (singing; impersonating Katie Holmes) and not falling into the try-hard trap. Joseph Gordon-Levitt felt similarly lived-in earlier this season.
The episode was light on big laughs, but it was steady enough. My main complaint is that nobody listened to me all week as I was begging for the season's first "Miley Cyrus Show," with Hathaway as special guest Taylor Swift. Was that really too much to ask? Though I guess the absence of pretty-cool Miley all season is symptomatic of the season's greater Vanessa Bayer Hostage Crisis. It's currently Day 57 of the crisis, and the outlook is grim that the show will allow Bayer to star in a sketch again any time soon. Courage.
Sketch of the Night
Hands-down the most memorable part of the show — and really, the funniest — was Rihanna's performance of "Diamonds," set in front of a green-screen where every screen-saver you ever had in 1998 was being projected. Rihanna's DGAF levels have been off the charts for a few years now, but this kind of overt weirdness — to promote her best single in a long time — was pretty endearing. Who knew she was so into fractals?
Kate McKinnon Takeover Status
Lots of McKinnon this week, though if we're talking "takeover," we might have to start adding Cecily Strong to the equation. Give that another week and see what develops. As for McKinnon, while the promising return of Ann Romney in the cold open never went anywhere, she really got to shine in the Ellen DeGeneres sketch. We'd seen a snippet of McKinnon's Ellen earlier this season, and the fully blown-out sketch lived up to the promise. She nailed Ellen's voice and goofy enthusiasm while also confronting the troubling question: What happens if Ellen doesn't feel like dancing? And that was all before Hathaway showed up to deliver her killer Katie Holmes impersonation. Gold stars and text messages with Sofia Vergara ("Aiiiiiiii!!!") for everyone!
Requiem of the Week
Alas, Mitt Romney, it's time we say goodbye. Sure, Jason Sudeikis was doing a pretty great job impersonating you. Sure, this week's cold open hit on a great recurring gag about your dozens of sons and how they all look exactly alike. And the milk-as-beer thing was pretty cute. And I guess it's pretty telling and a feather in your cap that SNL chose to open their first post-election episode with you instead of President Obama. But it's time to sail off into the undying lands of national politics now. Say hello to Norm McDonald's Bob Dole and Jon Lovitz's Michael Dukakis when you get there.
Best Publicity Gambit
We're still about six weeks away from Les Miserables opening (Christmas Day! Nice knowing you, family!), but what better way to get people excited about it than to have Jason Sudeikis show up in the middle of Anne Hathaway's monologue and launch into "One Day More"? Look, I'm going to fully admit that I have no shot at objectivity here. I may or may not have spent my weekend burrowing down a YouTube hole of Les Mis performances and repetitions of the new trailer. (There are a LOT of flash mobs doing "One Day More," you guys.) I may or may not have watched this monologue three times before moving on. I may or may not have gotten one or two goosebumps (three max) at the idea that Hathaway's Fantine won't get to participate in "One Day More" in the movie, so this monologue must have be extra fun for her. It's just nice when the entire cast can pull together for a complex musical number about what they do on their Sundays off, based on a song about French revolutionaries steeling themselves for battle, okay??
Best Single Line of Dialogue
What a great night for over-the-top insults! The McDonald's sketch, besides being a great opportunity for Cecily Strong and Bobby Moynihan to get aggro-funny, was overflowing with great random epithets to toss at your friends for no good reason this week. ("Your breath smell like cream corn and you ain't even eat no cream corn today!") But as great as it was to yell at Beverly for copying those Mad Libs, the burn of the night came earlier in the "Girlfriends Talk Show" sketch (another showcase for Cecily Strong), where Aidy Bryant hollered at Anne Hathaway, "YOU should be called Roach Warehouse!" Stealing it. Not sorry.
The "A for Effort" Award
I am loving the weird energy to be found in the Now That's What I'm Not Calling Digital Shorts clips every week, even if a precious few of them have really slayed me comedically. Mokiki and the Sloppy Swish was a great opportunity to just try something stupid, and however manic things got at the end with the green vomit, the sight of Taran Killam slouch-dancing around New York City like a weirdo was pretty great.
Bill Hader Celebrity Impersonation of the Night
I was really mixed on that Homeland sketch. The writing felt a little flat, as if someone had just finished a Homeland marathon, jotted down his or her observations, and then regurgitated them in list form on set. All the observations were on point, though — the jazz; Dana's dumb plotlines; Claire Danes's battery-powered chin-wobble — and I fell in love with Taran Killam's small-mouthed take on Damian Lewis and especially Bill Hader's low-key Mandy Patinkin. I know his "big" impersonations like James Carville get all the attention, but the beauty of Hader is that he can nail an impression just by going subtle.
Best Burn on Spotify
Kind of a rote Weekend Update this week. We knew we had to get Obama at some point, and since he wasn't in the cold open, Update was the next best guess. Jay Pharoah did yet another riff on his Cocky Obama, but it never really went anywhere. Also, Hader and Fred Armisen's gay couple from Maine felt like a rehash of years-old sketches about non-stereotypical gay dudes. The joke is that they're gay but also real men! Anyway, who cares about any of that when we get another visit from Drunk Uncle, who is understandably crestfallen about the election results and dismayed that nobody dresses up fancy to go vote anymore.
Best Face-Pulling
Hathaway was manic and hammy enough in that American Gothic sketch that you could have convinced me this was a cut bit from her Oscars hosting gig with James Franco. Of course, Jason Sudeikis is a better foil for her, and the two of them were just having fun, being goofy, knowing we're already well past midnight. I'm not going to say something so reckless as "cross-eyed humor is the lowest form of human entertainment," but it is pretty basic. Then again, so is someone falling down, and I'll laugh at that, too.
Sharpest, Most Accurate Social Commentary
Can I get a round of applause for the "Flaritin" commercial parody? Because they nailed it, advertising a pill for "Made-Up Allergies That You Invented to Get Attention." I especially loved Vanessa Bayer announcing to her entire office that she's allergic to yogurt. ("Even though you're eating it, I can get sick!")


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Daniel Craig's iconic Casino Royale swimming trunks and a car he drove in Quantum Of Solace helped raise more than $1.6 million at a James Bond memorabilia auction in London on Friday night (05Oct12).
The Global Bond Day Christie's sale was held to mark the 50th anniversary of the first superspy movie, Dr. No, and former James Bond icon Sir Roger Moore was on hand to help sell off several collectibles and props.
The highlight of the sale was a 2008 Aston Martin, driven by Craig in Quantum of Solace, which sold for $386,000 , while the swimwear he donned in one famous Bond scene earned $71,120 .
Actress Dame Judi Dench, who plays M in the superspy franchise, helped boost the price of the trunks by declaring, "They're unwashed."
One bidder paid $251,600 for a titanium Omega Seamaster Professional Planet Ocean watch worn by the actor in the upcoming film Skyfall, while a Tom Ford suit he donned fetched $74,960 .
Other items which went under the hammer included an orchestral score for the new theme song Skyfall, signed on the cover by singer Adele and co-writer Paul Epworth.
In a post on his Twitter.com page, comedian David Walliams, who was also among the star sellers at the event, writes, "I was with the Roger tonight at the Bond auction at Christie's. Over £1m was raised and Sir Roger was hilarious with his Daniel Craig mask."
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Natalie Khawam emerged tentatively from the shadows Tuesday to put a human face on her role as one of the side characters in the drama that cost former CIA Director David Petraeus his job.
The twin sister of Tampa, Fla., socialite Jill Kelley, whose complaint to the FBI ultimately undermined Petraeus, Khawam joined celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred at a packed news conference that left most relevant questions unanswered. Instead of details, Khawam offered impressions in a voice that sometimes seemed close to breaking.
"During my darkest times, Jill held the light for me," Khawam declared, reading from a prepared statement. "She and my brother-in-law, Dr. Kelley, took me in with my son when we needed refuge and protection."
Khawam, 37, further spoke of how she and her sister played tennis and softball together. They like cooking, chess and playing the piano, she said. They used to study together, she added. Then, having entered the room clutching Allred's arm, Khawam answered no questions.
Allred likewise declined to answer detailed questions about Petraeus, email communications, federal investigations or any of the other matters that had brought several dozen reporters and television cameras to a conference room of the Ritz-Carlton hotel. Instead, Allred focused on Khawam's appeal of a long-running child custody case.
"Obviously," Allred said, "there's so much more left to be said."
The intense spotlight began swinging toward Khawam and her sister when Kelley's indirect role in Petraeus' downfall became public.
An ambitious party hostess who made herself known to many senior officers at Tampa-based U.S. Central Command, Kelley initially complained to an FBI special agent about allegedly troubling or threatening anonymous emails she'd received. The subsequent inquiry led to the FBI discovering that the married Petraeus had had an affair with his married biographer, former Army officer Paula Broadwell.
Pressed by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Petraeus resigned earlier this month.
The investigation, however, also ensnared Marine Corps Gen. John Allen, who reportedly had had extensive email communications with Kelley that have been described as "flirtatious." His nomination to head NATO has been placed on hold.
Ever since, Khawam's and Kelley's own legal and financial travails have been publicly exposed. Kelley's bay-side mansion in Tampa is in foreclosure, and she and her surgeon husband, Scott, have been entangled in multiple lawsuits. Khawam filed for bankruptcy protection in April, claiming debts totaling $3.6 million.
Court records in the child custody case indicated that Petraeus and Allen had written letters of support on Khawam's behalf, though District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Neal Kravitz cited in a Nov. 9, 2011, document "serious concerns not only about Ms. Khawam's credibility as a witness, but also about her lack of integrity (and) her alienating behavior."
On Tuesday, Allred said Petraeus and his wife, Holly, supported Khawam because "both have known Natalie and her son personally for many years. . . . They both spoke up through their court declarations in support of Natalie . . . when they learned that she was being unfairly portrayed and was a victim of injustice."
Allred also said the National Organization for Women had filed a new appeals brief on Khawam's behalf..
Allred describes herself on her website as "the most famous woman attorney practicing in the nation today," though the three-time Emmy nominee is known more now for her news conferences than her courtroom performances.
The 69-year-old Loyola University School of Law graduate has represented the likes of Amber Frey, the former girlfriend of convicted murderer Scott Peterson, as well as several alleged mistresses of golfer Tiger Woods and a woman who alleged that former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain once fondled her.
Kelley now has her own attorney, Washington-based criminal defense specialist Abbe Lowell, as well as a "crisis communications" specialist named Judy Smith. Lowell has a long political pedigree, previously representing politicians such as former California Congressman Gary Condit and former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards.
Smith, too, is well connected, having guided the likes of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas during his confirmation hearings and the kingdom of Saudi Arabia.


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Big Run Carpet owner vows to keep business going after fire
BIG RUN – A massive fire may have devastated the business that has been in his family more than 30 years, but Big Run Carpet owner Jeff London said he'll sell carpet from his barn, his garage or a tent if he must.
"I have already been on the phone with three sales representatives," he said Sunday afternoon, just hours after the major fire all but destroyed the business. "They'd better be bringing me samples tomorrow. I'll be selling out of a tent if I have to.
"Hey, what else can I do?" said London, who has owned the business for 14 years. "That's all I have. I've hung out there since I was three years old."
Firefighters from several local companies responded to the blaze, which broke out around 12:48 a.m. Sunday.
Big Run Area Volunteer Fire Company Chief Todd Peace said that by the time he arrived on-scene, he could see flames spanning from the front of the building, in the office, to the warehouse.
"It was clear through the building," he said.
London said he was asleep when a friend called to let him know what was happening. He said he could see the sky above the business illuminated as he approached.
"My god, when I came up over the hill, I could see the sky, and I looked at my daughter and said, 'Lex, we're in trouble,'" he said.
There were no injuries, Peace said, and the Punxsutawney-based Pennsylvania State Police fire marshal is also investigating.
Peace deemed the structure as "a total loss" early Sunday morning. And Sunday afternoon, he said he believes the fire is "suspicious."
Big Run fire units didn't return to their headquarters until 8:28 a.m. Sunday.
London said Big Run Carpet has been in his family since 1977, when his father, John London, bought it from George Kim, who established the business in the late 1960s.
The younger London has owned Big Run Carpet for the last 14 years, employing about five installers.


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The Night Safari Lembeh, Feb 27 - Mar 6, 2010
Join Scubacam and underwater photographers Tony Wu and Eric Cheng at Kasawari Lembeh Resort from February 27 - March 6, 2010 for a special night safari at Lembeh Strait, Indonesia. During this time, Kasarawi will switch to a night schedule, allowing photographers to dive well into the night (and sleep late into the morning).
When the sun goes down, critters of the night take over the waters of the Lembeh Strait, and the party begins. Octopuses, bobbit worms, stargazers and much more come out to hunt, fight and reproduce. The action is non-stop, and photographic opportunities abound.
Visitors to Lembeh usually only have a chance to catch part of the show, with perhaps a single night dive after a long day of diving, which means that few people have seen what happens late at night in the prolific waters of this popular dive destination.
If you're a keen underwater photographer and the prospect of spending lots of quality time with the Strait's night shift appeals to you, consider joining the first-ever Night Safari Lembeh from 27 February to 6 March at Kasawari Lembeh Resort.
During this period, the entire resort will convert to a night schedule, meaning trip participants will have the opportunity to dive well into the night (and sleep late into the morning!).
The trip is being jointly organized by Scubacam in Singapore and FiNS in Bangkok. Photographers Tony Wu and Eric Cheng will be at the resort as well. (NOTE: Eric will be at the resort from March 3-10, 2010)
For more information about the trip, see this trip description or contact David or Sanah at Scubacam.
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Friends host author Ann Peters April 15
Ann Peters grew up in Taycheedah, just off Highway 151. After graduating from Goodrich, she went to University of Notre Dame and, armed with her degree, off to New York City. Peters' father, Roger Peters, was a successful local architect. He designed the family home on the Ledge as well as many other notable residences.
These early years made an indelible impression on Peters. Now an associate professor of English at Stern College, Yeshiva University in New York and a resident of Brooklyn and upstate New York, she's written House Hold: A Memoir of Place.
Peters will be the featured speaker at the Friends of the Fond du Lac Public Library Annual Meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 15, in the McLane Room of the downtown Main Library. The meeting is free and open to the public; refreshments will be served. No registration is required.
In House Hold, Peters revisits the modern split-level where she grew up, remembering her family, friends and neighbors, including Dr. Fuller McBride and Ann Hanson, among others. She charts her personal story through two decades of New York City apartments, before traveling to a cabin in the mountains of Colorado and finally purchasing an old farmhouse in upstate New York.
According to reviewer Alice Kaplan of Yale University, the book "has the makings of an American classic: a perceptive and deeply affecting book about belonging to a place and yet never quite belonging."
After a discussion and reading, Peters will sign copies of her book, which will be available for purchase.
The Friends' Annual Meeting is held to celebrate National Library week – April 13-19 – a decades-old observance sponsored by the American Library Association to highlight the value of libraries, librarians and library workers. The Friends organization is a non-profit that promotes and encourages the use of library services by fundraising, supporting special events such as Fond du Lac Reads and providing programs for the community.


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Why did I join Smurfit Kappa?
I joined Smurfit Kappa through its Graduate Management Development Program, a two years career program that offered me the opportunity to be trained in all the business areas, carrying out different projects. I thought it was a challenging opportunity to spread my knowledge and develop my skills in different business areas, and all of this in an international environment with clear opportunities of professional growth.
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Reducing Fractions
Date: 5/30/96 at 15:44:39 From: Vivian McCraw Subject: Reducing fractions I was placed in ESE from Pre-k through grade 12 and they never had me learn to reduce fractions. What is the easiest method of reducing fractions to lowest terms that you know? Greg
Date: 5/31/96 at 16:6:3 From: Doctor Byron Subject: Re: Reducing fractions Hi Greg, In order to reduce a fraction, you need to find the biggest number that divides into both the numerator (the top number) and the denominator (the bottom number). After some practice, you may find that you can do this pretty quickly. At first, though, it is often helpful to list all the factors and simply look to see the biggest one shared by both numbers. Factors, by the way, are simply any number that divides into another number evenly. Let me give you an example: Let's look at the fraction - 48 ------ 32 The factors of 48 are: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 24, 48 The factors of 32 are: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 If you look at both lists you'll see that 16 is the biggest number that is on both lists. So to reduce the fraction, we divide the top and bottom by sixteen. 48/16 3 ------- = ----- 32/16 2 If you find that there are no numbers (other than one) which are shared factors of both, the the fraction is as simple as it can get. Also, you don't have to simply look for the biggest factor right away. If you notice a shared factor quickly, you can go ahead and divide by it right away. You will have to make sure that there aren't any factors left, though. Let's look at the same example again: You may have noticed that both 48 and 32 are even, so it's pretty obvious that they both share two as a factor. So you could start by dividing both by two: 48/2 24 ------ = ---- 32/2 16 Now you might notice that 24 and 16 are both divisible by four, so you can go ahead and divide again: 24/4 6 ------ = --- 16/4 4 Finally, we see that these are even and can be divided by 2 again: 6/2 3 ----- = --- 4/2 2 I hope this has been helpful. I would suggest you find a math book that has some problems with answers given so that you can practice reducing fractions for a while, or maybe you could ask someone who knows how to make some problems for you to practice. Good luck! -Doctor Byron, The Math Forum Check out our web site! http://mathforum.org/dr.math/
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Via Roma Suites, Florence
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Main amenities
- 5 smoke-free apartments
- Valet parking
- Air conditioning
- Laundry service
- Tour/ticket assistance
- Free WiFi
Feel at home
- Cribs/infant beds (surcharge)
- Sofa bed
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- In Duomo
- Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Flower - 3 min walk
- Ponte Vecchio - 6 min walk
- Florence Baptistery - 1 min walk
- San Lorenzo Church - 3 min walk
- Piazza della Signoria - 5 min walk
- Palazzo Vecchio - 5 min walk
- Uffizi Gallery - 6 min walk
- Bargello - 6 min walk
- Santa Maria Novella Basilica and Museum - 7 min walk
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Hotel size
- This hotel has 5 rooms
- Check-in time 3 PM-7 PM
- Check-out time is 11 AM
Required at check in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
- Minimum check-in age is 18
Travelling with others
- Pets not allowed
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi and wired Internet access in rooms
- Valet parking *
- Discounted offsite parking
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- Smoke-free property
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- Bicycle rentals nearby
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- Elevator/lift
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- Air conditioning
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- Sofa bed size
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- Separate dining area
- Separate living room
- Private bathroom
- Shower only
- Bidet
- Free toiletries
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- Free WiFi
- Full-sized refrigerator/freezer
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- Kitchen
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Via Roma Suites, Florence's small print
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All guests, including children, must be present at check-in and show their government-issued photo ID card or passport.
Cash transactions at this property cannot exceed EUR 2999.99, due to national regulations. For further details, please contact the property using information in the booking confirmation.Please note that cultural norms and guest policies may differ by country and by property. The policies listed are provided by the property.
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You'll be asked to pay the following charges at check in or check out:
- A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 3.00 per person, per night, up to 7 nights. This tax does not apply to children under 12 years of age.
Optional extras
Valet parking costs EUR 30 per night
Parking is available nearby and costs EUR 25 per 24 hours
Cribs/Infant beds are available for EUR 20 per night
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.
What's around Via Roma Suites, Florence
- In Duomo
- Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Flower - 3 min walk
- Ponte Vecchio - 6 min walk
- Florence Baptistery - 1 min walk
- San Lorenzo Church - 3 min walk
- Piazza della Signoria - 5 min walk
- Palazzo Vecchio - 5 min walk
- Uffizi Gallery - 6 min walk
Getting around
- Florence (FLR-Peretola) - 26 min drive
- Florence Santa Maria Novella Station - 10 min walk
- Porta al Prato Station - 21 min walk
- Florence Statuto Station - 27 min walk
- Florence-Cascine Station - 27 min walk
- Valet parking (surcharge)
- Discounted offsite parking
Recent reviews
Good 7.2 From 18 reviews
We had an amazing stay in Florence! Via Roma is very well located and reasonably priced! This apartment is steps away from the Duomo, and 10 minutes away from the Firenze SMN train station by foot.
Ottima posizione proprio nel cuore di Firenze e 1 min a piedi dal Duomo. I letti erano comodi e i bagni erano puliti. Presentazione molto bella e utile da parte del personale dell'hotel. L'edificio dell'hotel è molto vecchio (tutto in Italia lo è) ma l'area dell'ascensore era un po' maleodorante. I pavimenti avevano alcune macchie (ma sono state pulite). Nel complesso, ottima posizione e comfort per un ottimo prezzo. Ci tornerò ancora.
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It's hard to imagine that something as seemingly simple as wooden blocks could be this much fun, but they are. They're fun, clever, gratifying, and honestly, they're a little addictive - as soon as you complete one challenge, you want to do another. Kids love'em, and more than a few adults had a hard time putting them down, too. There are 9 different colorful wooden blocks in different configurations, and each challenge requires you to assemble the blocks (and one or both of the figurines) in a very specific way. There are five different levels of play. At the Starter and Junior levels, the illustrations take you through an evolution from start to finish as you construct your building. The figurine(s), who are considered the supervisors, must stay on the building at all times as it's being constructed. At the Expert, Master, and Wizard levels, you're just shown the final configuration, and must get there on your own. Develops logical reasoning, strategic planning, visual and spatial perception.


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It's a Disaster
The apocalypse is in the air these days. Todd Berger's It's a Disaster is the first of four end-of-the-world comedies set for release this year-the others being May's Rapture-Palooza, June's This Is the End, and August's The World's End-and it sets the bar very high for those to come. A character study of eight self-centered friends who congregate for brunch, soon discover their cell phones, Internet, and TV are dead, then learn that they're in the middle of World War III, It's a Disaster starts off threatening to be an insufferable exercise in hipsterism.
Emma and Pete's marriage is on the rocks-they're hosting the brunch so as to announce their divorce-because Emma (Erinn Hayes) slept with Buck (Kevin M. Brennan) and Pete (Blaise Miller) slept with Lexi (Rachel Boston). Yes, Buck and Lexi are a couple too, and they are basically closeted swingers. All seem like clichés: Emma is an uptight suburbanite with hair carefully parted, red lipstick strategically applied, and pearls lovingly draped. Pete is a classic yuppie bordering on a midlife crisis. Buck is a stoner washout with a Hulk Hogan mustache. Lexi is a free-spirited glockenspiel player who's proud of the fact that she and Buck consummated their marriage in the bathroom of a TGI Fridays.
As for the rest of the brunch attendees, Emma and Pete's doctor friend Tracy (Julia Stiles) is a mess of neuroses, maybe because she exclusively dates crazy men, or because none of her friends believe that her boyfriends have been crazy. Her new bf, Glen (David Cross, in full Tobias Fünke mode), seems more promising: he's a fourth-grade history teacher, and the only crazy thing about him is that he's okay with shutting off the 1812 Overture right before its famous climax. At least he's not like Shane (Jeff Grace), Hedy's (America Ferrera) long-term fiancé, who shuns human interaction at the brunch in favor of obsessively bidding online on a rare Alpha Flight comic book.
So yeah, all those characters sound like clichés. On paper they most definitely are. But when brought to life by this talented ensemble, they're anything but. And once it becomes clear that their lives as they've known them are over - an unknown attacker drops dirty bombs and nerve gas on New York, Los Angeles, Orlando, and multiple other cities - then it becomes really interesting. Especially once they realize that the nerve gas will very shortly seep into Emma and Pete's house and kill them all. It's like Portlandia meets Melancholia, and it's fascinating to see how each of the characters orients himself or herself toward the prospect of imminent death.
Worry wort comic-book freak Shane leads the charge to tape up the doors and windows and try to find some way to survive, while endlessly speculating over who attacked them - the enemy couldn't have been from this world, right? - and planning to deal with the post-apocalyptic motorcycle gangs they'll surely face if they live. His completely neglected fiancée Hedy, a chemistry teacher, goes into a negative panic and starts making home-cooked Ecstasy to cope. Tracy sets up one of the best jokes of the movie by lamenting all the things she never did in her life: she never went to Europe, never went to the ballet, never fell in love, never watched The Wire. The response of Glen? ''All of those things are overrated except for The Wire." Oh, and as for Cross's Glen? Well, you'll have to witness his unique solution for dealing with Armageddon yourself.
It's a tricky thing to mine humor from a feel-bad situation as thoroughly awful as this - Berger even shoots his movie like an Ingmar Bergman chamber drama - but whereas this summer's all-star comic extravaganza This Is the End appears to strive for raunchy belly laughs, It's a Disaster settles for a general mood of wry amusement as its characters ponder questions of their own mortality that they've probably never pondered before and maybe still aren't. Two of the couples at least, Emma and Pete and Buck and Lexi, are so self-absorbed that even the end of the world can't make them look beyond themselves: Emma and Pete are still squabbling with each other over past infidelities, and Buck and Lexi can't overcome their "party on!" attitude toward life to appreciate the gravity of their situation. When Lexi asks Buck if he thinks there's a band in heaven they'll get to join once they pass through the pearly gates, Buck says, "I know there is, and we're going to be a part of it. 'Cause guess what they need? A glockenspielist."
For his film Sans Soleil Chris Marker wrote, "I've been round the world several times and now only banality still interests me." He has a kindred spirit in Berger, who seems amused and even a little charmed by humanity's boundless penchant for the mundane. Berger doesn't place himself above his characters, which makes it all the easier to imply the question: what would you do if you knew you only had hours to live? Would you suddenly experience life as exceptionally heightened and sensually gratifying? Or would nothing really change? It's fitting that It's a Disaster should be released the same weekend as Terrence Malick's To the Wonder, a film that insists upon finding holiness and serene beauty in every single shot - and by extension life itself. It's a Disaster recognizes how much of the human experience takes place in the realm of the banal, and just how okay that is.
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Max is an extraordinary speaker and a beloved person who speaks throughout the country and continues to lead groups to Europe. IN HIS OWN WORDS: "The story of the Holocaust has to be told to the new generation, but it needs to be delivered in a manner that does not create hate."
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Max Glauben was born the son of Jewish middle class parents in Warsaw, Poland, in 1928. By 1939, his family was relocated to the Warsaw Ghetto, and then transported to the Majdanek gas chambers in 1943. Most of his family members were executed, but Glauben and his father were selected for slave labor in the Budzyn Concentration Camp. After his father was killed, Glauben was sent to the Mielec, Wieliczka, and Flossenburg concentration camps. He was liberated by the United States Army on April 23, 1945. Glauben then moved to the United States in December 1947, and was drafted into the U.S. Army during the Korean War in 1951, being stationed at Fort Hood. He married and has lived in Texas ever since.
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ACTA Raising Serious Constitutional Questions
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But it appears that some law professors are also pretty concerned about trying to sneak ACTA through by calling it an executive agreement. Harvard law professors Jack Goldsmith and Larry Lessig have penned an opinion piece for the Washington Post where they lay out an explanation for why calling ACTA an executive agreement may not be Constitutional:
The administration has suggested that a sole executive agreement in this instance would not trample Congress's prerogatives because the pact would not affect U.S. domestic law. Binding the United States to international obligations of this sort without congressional approval would raise serious constitutional questions even if domestic law were not affected. In any event, an anti-counterfeiting agreement made on the president's own authority could affect domestic law in at least three ways:At what point does President Obama begin to regret his blind support of ACTA?
First, the noncriminal portions of this agreement that contemplate judicial enforcement can override inconsistent state law and possibly federal law. Second, the agreement could invalidate state law that conflicts with its general policies under a doctrine known as obstacle preemption, even if the terms are not otherwise judicially enforceable. Third, a judicial canon requires courts to interpret ambiguous federal laws to avoid violations of international obligations. This means courts will construe the many ambiguities in federal laws on intellectual property, telecom policy and related areas to conform to the agreement.
If the president proceeds unilaterally here, ACTA will be challenged in court. But the best route to constitutional fidelity is for Congress or the Senate to protect its constitutional prerogatives. When the George W. Bush administration suggested it might reach a deal with Russia on nuclear arms reduction by sole executive agreement, then-Sen. Joe Biden wrote to Secretary of State Colin Powell insisting that the Constitution required Senate consent and implicitly threatening inter-branch retaliation if it was not given. The Bush administration complied.
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March 09. 2013 12:42AM
The Union Leader's story last Friday about a Manchester high school teacher and coach who surrendered his teacher's license after allegations of inappropriate conduct with a minor leaves unanswered questions.
Among them, just what happened here and were the police notified? If so, why no investigation?
These are not idle questions. But, more and more, the public isn't getting answers.
The people of New Hampshire and its towns, cities and state government elect and appoint officials and expect those officials to follow the law.
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In Manchester, the allegations were serious enough for Nicholas Moutsioulis to surrender his license to teach.
He did so under a provision of teacher rules that allows surrender with the knowledge that revocation is likely. But teacher personnel records are also confidential.
The Union Leader found, through the man's divorce records, that his wife had charged, and he denied, "an adulterous relationship with a minor over whom he was in a position of authority."
This is no small thing. But when our reporter asked Superintendent of Schools Thomas Brennan whether he had notified the police, he wouldn't directly answer the question. He would say only that proper procedures were followed. The police, meanwhile, say they have no record of an investigation or prosecution. Which means what? That they were not notified or were but decided not to investigate?
The school board ought to demand a straight answer from Brennan and report it to the public. Was the matter reported to police? Chief David Mara also needs to set the record straight.
We are entering what is known as "Sunshine Week" in honor and appreciation of our open form of self-government.
Manchester and New Hampshire could use a lot more sunshine these days.


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Two libertarians vie for the name—and the GOP nomination.
In 2008, Texas Rep. Ron Paul was alone among GOP presidential hopefuls in his unstinting defense of free markets, sound money, civil liberties, and a noninterventionist foreign policy. This time he has company. Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, who endorsed Paul four years ago, is running for president himself.
Paul and Johnson are arguably the country's two most successful libertarian-leaning politicians. Paul has been elected to Congress 12 times—three of them as a non-incumbent—emphasizing liberty and less government. He boasts of never voting for legislation unless it is expressly authorized by the Constitution. Every year, he sponsors countless bills eliminating government programs, reducing spending, cutting taxes, and eradicating regulations. Paul has used his office as a platform for spreading libertarian ideas, entering the works of obscure free-market economists and anti-statist philosophers into the Congressional Record.
Johnson was twice elected governor of New Mexico. During that time, he vetoed over 750 bills, more than all the other governors combined, and ruthlessly slashed state spending. Johnson cut taxes 14 times and never approved a tax increase, yet when he left office New Mexico was one of just four states with a balanced budget. Almost alone among state-level officials, Johnson emerged as an outspoken critic of state and federal drug laws.
The careers of Ron Paul and Gary Johnson make a good case for libertarian participation in the Republican Party. Both men could have run on identical platforms as Libertarian Party candidates and would have received an infinitesimal number of votes. As Republicans, they won elections and were able to govern. Paul did secure the Libertarian presidential nomination in 1988, but he received more exposure and votes running a distant fourth in the 2008 Republican primaries.
In fact, it is a sign of progress for the libertarian wing of the GOP that there are now two prominent candidates offering an alternative to the Republican establishment's prescriptions of war, deficit spending, and a liberty-constricting national-security state. But the simultaneous Paul and Johnson campaigns have generated quite a bit of animosity among libertarians, who divide between the two camps.
So far, the tension has mostly been confined to low-level sniping on Internet forums and blog comment threads. "Johnson is not as wacky as Paul, and comes across as more intelligent," read a typical pro-Johnson comment at the American Spectator. "I hope Johnson steps aside and leaves the field to Paul alone," began a representative pro-Paul rejoinder. "Johnson is very bad on immigration." But as the primaries draw closer, the dueling camps' charges and countercharges could get as ugly as the 1996 feud between the supporters of Pat Buchanan and Alan Keyes, candidates who were likewise competing for similar voters.
While many libertarians like the idea of both Johnson and Paul participating in primary debates, the candidates' backers worry that two campaigns will dilute an already limited anti-statist vote in the Republican Party. Matt Collins, a Tennessee Ron Paul supporter who fears that Johnson might "split or at least siphon the liberty vote," summarized the dilemma well. "Having multiple candidates forcing the entire field to discuss the Constitution and liberty will be good for everyone," he wrote. "Having multiple liberty candidates to vote for will not."
Some of the Paul vs. Johnson arguments concern electoral viability: Paul has higher name recognition and an already established national network of supporters; Johnson is younger and, as a former governor, has relevant executive experience. "Serious libertarian-leaning Republicans should be looking at Governor Johnson, not at Ron Paul, at this point," Below the Beltway blogger Doug Mataconis told political columnist Matt Lewis. The poll numbers relate a different story, however: a May Gallup survey showed Paul within five points of Sarah Palin among Republicans nationwide and tied for second place behind Mitt Romney if Palin doesn't run. Johnson polled no higher than 3 percent under any scenario.
Arguments about libertarian ideological purity loom even larger in the Paul-Johnson split, with supporters of each candidate staking claims to be more-libertarian-than-thou. Paul, writes George Mason University law professor Ilya Somin, "has very nonlibertarian positions on free trade, school choice, and especially immigration." He describes Johnson as "clearly superior to Paul from a libertarian point of view." As Somin observes, Johnson "supports school choice and free trade agreements, he's as pro-immigration as any successful politician can be, and he believes the Bill of Rights constrains the states as well as the federal government."
Needless to say, there are arguments that each of Paul's alleged deficiencies is actually the correct libertarian position. In this telling, school vouchers are taxpayer subsidies that may end up socializing private schools; "free trade" pacts are really government-managed trade agreements rather than genuine free trade; contemporary mass immigration, as libertarian theorist Hans-Hermann Hoppe has argued, is more akin to forced integration than the free movement of people; the doctrine of incorporation is constitutional buncombe. Factor in Paul's opposition to abortion and lukewarm stance on gay rights, and Somin's list becomes the comprehensive case that one kind of libertarian makes for Johnson.
"Like Paul, [Johnson] is anti-war, anti-big government and pro-civil liberties," writes the Reason Foundation's Shikha Dalmia. "But unlike Paul, he is pro-choice (except for late-term abortions), pro-immigration, pro-trade and untainted by bizarre conspiracy theories that NAFTA is a prelude to the dissolution of North American borders."
Paul supporters have their ideological problems with Johnson as well. The former governor is less antiwar than Paul, leaving the door open to unspecified humanitarian interventions in an interview with the Weekly Standard. Johnson is also less anti-Federal Reserve: he joins Paul in calling for an audit of the central bank but not in proposing its abolition. For many libertarians and constitutional conservatives drawn to Paul, war and the Fed are the preeminent political issues of our time. Johnson has advocated a Steve Forbes-style flat tax, while Paul has joked he would go along if the tax rate was zero. Johnson said in April that he wouldn't close the prison at Guantanamo Bay.
The potential for this mostly civil intra-libertarian debate to degenerate into something like the 1996 Buchanan-Keyes food fight is already clear. No libertarian brief for Johnson is complete without casual references to Paul's "past association with racists" (Will Wilkinson), "racist newsletter baggage" (Dalmia), or "weird right-wing conspiracy theories" (Somin). Libertarian apologists for Paul frequently criticize "cosmotarians," particularly those who receive support from oil billionaires Charles and David Koch, and rehearse grievances that date back to the 1988 Libertarian Party nomination fight.
Pat Buchanan plays a bit part in the Paul-Johnson struggle too. Many of Paul's libertarian critics are incensed by his intellectual debt to the economist and anti-statist theoretician Murray Rothbard, particularly Paul and Rothbard's 1990s association with Buchananites. Somin describes Rothbard's "paleolibertarianism" as a "political strategy of appealing to white racial resentment against minorities." Other libertarians plainly dislike the compatibility of this variant of libertarianism with cultural conservatism.
Ron Paul and Gary Johnson come to libertarianism from very different places. In his bestselling campaign book Liberty Defined, Paul also credits economists Ludwig von Mises, F.A. Hayek, Leonard Read, and Hans Sennholz as intellectual influences. But his flavor of libertarianism remains unmistakably Rothbardian. Paul and Rothbard didn't agree on everything. Paul believes in limited government while Rothbard was an anarchist. Paul is passionately pro-life while Rothbard wrote in The Ethics of Liberty that human beings have no right "to be coercive parasites within the body of an unwilling human host" and therefore "the fetus can have no such right either."
Yet Paul has retained his old friend's devotion to Austrian economics and a natural-rights-based libertarianism rooted in the nonaggression principle, the axiom that one must not commit aggression against another's person or property. The two also shared bourgeois values and a populist approach to politics. In Radicals for Capitalism, a history of modern libertarianism, Brian Doherty writes that in 1988 "Rothbard was repulsed by LP members who hated Paul's GOP past, straight-laced demeanor, and anti-abortion stance." Their unsuccessful efforts to deny Paul the Libertarian nomination drove Rothbard from the party.
Paul's emphasis on ending foreign wars and abolishing the Fed is also pure Rothbard. As an economist and a political theorist, Rothbard hated the central bank and its fiat money. He hated militarism even more. Rothbard once wrote, "my ideological and political activism has been focused on opposition to America's wars" both because he "believed our waging them to be unjust" and because he agreed with essayist Randolph Bourne that "war is the health of the state."
Johnson is a less systematic political thinker who seems to be driven by the observation that—with apologies to the Dick Armey-led Tea Party group—freedom works. He favors the consequentialist arguments preferred by policy wonks of the Chicago School of economics, such as the late Milton Friedman. He is less inclined to denounce government interventions as unjust. He's more likely to argue that they are unaffordable or simply don't work. Johnson has said, "decisions should be made based on cost-benefit analysis rather than strict ideology." Even on drug legalization, one of his main issues, he normally employs practical rather than ethical arguments. His campaign website talks about "winning the war against drug abuse."
Thus Johnson's supporters tend to be those attracted to libertarianism because they think freedom advances human happiness rather than those primarily concerned about the depredations of the state. These libertarians admire the innovations the market makes possible more than they fear government. For them, sexual self-expression is as integral to individual freedom as matters of war and peace. Their libertarianism is the "dynamism" described by author Virginia Postrel and the hedonism decried by Lew Rockwell—a former Paul congressional aide and Rothbard disciple—in a 1990 Liberty essay lamenting the "Woodstockian flavor" of the libertarian movement.
While the differences between these two schools of libertarianism are important, they can be overstated. Most libertarians make both consequentialist and morally absolute arguments. For all his sweeping moral claims against American foreign policy, Paul is also quick to say interventionism doesn't deliver the intended results and the country cannot afford to pay for it.
Reason editor Jesse Walker contended that the May 5 Republican debate demonstrated how the two perspectives can complement one another. "When Paul's hardline libertarian moral defense of drug decriminalization was followed immediately by Johnson's consequentialist approach, the benefits of the Paul/Johnson duo became clear," Walker wrote. "Each guy got to make the arguments that the other one didn't, and the audience got to hear a broader case for a controversial position than the format allowed either man to offer by himself."
Even the social differences between the two libertarians running for the GOP nomination can be exaggerated. For example, Johnson may favor abortion rights. But as governor of New Mexico, he won the support of pro-life groups by signing a parental-notification bill and late-term abortion ban. That puts Johnson well to the right of California Governor Pete Wilson's 1996 campaign position and Rudy Giuliani's actual governing record, to compare him to two previous pro-choice Republican presidential aspirants.
Similarly, while Paul's immigration views irritate many libertarians, professional immigration restrictionists are increasingly at odds with the congressman over his opposition to enforcement mechanisms like E-Verify and sanctions on employers who hire illegal immigrants. For all the complaints about Paul's sympathy for paleoconservatism, the overwhelming majority of the libertarians in his circle have broken with the sentiments behind the more controversial passages in the Ron Paul Survival Report. There's no evidence that Paul himself ever identified with them. And they have almost nothing to do with the movement supporting Paul today.
Those 1990s-era newsletters aren't the only Rothbardian association that gets Paul into trouble. The congressman's squeamishness about the raid that killed 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden—at least as it was conducted by the Obama administration—flows in part from Rothbard's notions about the strict limits on the permissible use of force. These ideas aren't widely shared by people inclined to vote in Republican primaries, to put it mildly. Paul's tendency to give voice to such ideas will undoubtedly put a ceiling on his GOP support.
Nevertheless, Paul's brand of libertarianism is taking him farther than Johnson. While Johnson languishes in the low single digits, Paul frequently breaks 10 percent. In a field where even the frontrunner has trouble reaching 20 percent, that's an accomplishment. Many national polls have shown him competitive with presumed top-tier candidates, in some cases running ahead of such presidential hopefuls as Tim Pawlenty who pundits believe can win the nomination. To be sure, some of that is due to his having run before. According to one poll, 76 percent of Republicans nationally can identify Paul while only 11 percent have heard of Johnson. The ex-governor is building his name recognition, donor base, and state organizations from scratch.
Because it is at once more radical and more conservative, Paul's libertarian philosophy is better suited for winning a following among the electorate that will actually decide the nomination. The radicalism of Paul's message on monetary policy and war is what drives his passionate grassroots supporters to donate time and money to his campaign. Paul's cultural conservatism, to say nothing of his conservative temperament, also gives him more potential for growth within the mainstream GOP.
Both his son Rand Paul's successful 2010 campaign for Senate and Ron Paul's own 1996 comeback congressional bid demonstrated that a coalition of economic and social conservatives can overcome the determined opposition of hawkish national-security conservatives. Johnson, by contrast, would have to draw from economic conservatives alone. For a candidate running in a Republican primary, the attitudes held by these conservative voters are far more important than those of libertarian bloggers and policy analysts.
That brings us to a final comparison, the 1996 contest between Buchanan and Keyes. As significant as that competition may have seemed to the Buchanan Brigades at the time, outside of Iowa Keyes probably cost Buchanan little support. Keyes drew many of his votes from Republicans who wanted to back a strongly pro-life candidate but who were uncomfortable either with Buchanan's position on Israel or his perceived overall political incorrectness. As a staunchly pro-Israel black man who delivered some of the best pro-life stemwinders on the stump, Keyes was an appealing alternative to them. But it is unclear how many of those votes would have been available to Buchanan in the first place.
The issues that cause some libertarians to prefer Johnson to Paul would have kept many of them from voting for Paul in any circumstance. Yet the GOP has many more pro-life evangelicals than cosmopolitan libertarians, making Johnson in 2010 more untenable than Keyes was in 1996. The very traits and policy positions that make Johnson so appealing to some libertarians will allow Paul to go further in the primaries. Perhaps the Republican presidential field has room for two libertarians after all.
W. James Antle III is associate editor of The American Spectator.
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