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In Egypt, voters appear to have approved the controversial draft referendum on a proposed constitution in the first stage of the referendum held across half of the country yesterday.
The outcome is unofficial at this point as the government has said it will not announce official results until the referendum concludes in the rest of Egypt next Saturday. The vote is being held in two stages because a boycott by many judges who were supposed to supervise the elections. Those boycotting say they reject the constitution because it doesn't have a national consensus.
Major supporters and opponents of the constitution posted varying accounts of yesterday's vote on their websites, although most reported the constitution had received a majority "yes" vote.
The Muslim Brotherhood, which is the key power in Egyptian government, reported on its website that nearly 77 percent voted in favor of the draft constitution. A major rival political party, the secular Al-Wafd, reported the document received a smaller majority of 57 percent.
Egyptian state-run TV said on its website that 68 percent and 72 percent of voters cast "no" ballots in the country's two largest cities — Cairo and Alexandria.
The Brotherhood, however, reported 78 percent of voters in Alexandria approved the constitution.
Voter turnout was so high in some areas that election officials extended polling station hours from 7 to 11 p.m. Several voting irregularities were reported, including invalid ballots and voters not being allowed into some polling stations.
Also, the turnout reported by the Brotherhood showed far fewer voters turning out than appeared to be the case at polling stations across Cairo and Alexandria.
The opposition National Salvation Front was quoted by the state-run al-Ahram newspaper as saying it rejected any counts that went on before voting stations were closed. According to al-Ahram, the Front claims the referendum was actually rejected with 66 percent of the vote.
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The tantalizing aroma of freshly baked brioche is hard to resist, while a virtuous loaf of whole wheat often lacks that same allure. Blame it on the ferulic acid.
See, whole-wheat bread contains all parts of the wheat, including the bran, but white bread does not. That bran in the wheat bread contains the aforementioned ferulic acid, which overrides the compounds that give white bread its mouthwatering smell, according to new research.
Much nudging from the health police has convinced more people to eat whole-grain bread, but just 60 percent of Americans eat a whole-grain food at least once in two weeks, according to the Whole Grains Council. Clearly our hearts, and our palates, still belong to white.
"My children, they cut off crusts from wheat bread. Why?" asks Devin Peterson, co-director of the Flavor Research and Education Center at the University of Minnesota. He knows he's not the only parent who's noticed that whole wheat can be a tough sell.
But unlike the rest of us, Peterson has the chops to figure out what makes for whole wheat's lack of appeal. His lab baked up whole wheat and white bread, removed the crust right when it came out of the oven, and froze the crust in liquid nitrogen.
After that Peterson and his colleagues ground the frozen bread crust in a mortar and pestle, added solvent, distilled the liquid, and ran it through a series of gas chromatographs and sniffers. (Crust was chosen because it's the part of bread that browns the most, and browning is a major part of flavor.)
The white bread crust gave off chemicals that smell like corn chips, potatoes, caramel, and flowers, while the whole wheat produced malty, earthy, cucumber, fatty smells. Which would you choose for toast?
To combat some of these issues, manufacturers often add salt and sugar to whole-grain bread. But that takes away from its nutritional value. Indeed, some products labeled "whole grain" have more sugar and calories than products that don't sport that label, a recent study in the journal Public Health Nutrition found.
Products with the Whole Grain stamp, which is a common symbol on food packages these days, were higher in fiber and lower in trans fats than some other foods, but had more sugar and calories compared to products without the stamp. Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health found that products that met the American Heart Association's standard — requiring a 10:1 ratio of carbohydrates to fiber — were healthiest overall.
The Whole Grains Council, which developed the stamp, took some issues with Harvard's conclusions. "It's designed to address whole grain content and nothing more," says Cynthia Harriman, director of food and nutrition strategies for Oldways and the Council. And, she noted: "Whole-grain consumption went up 20 percent in the first three years after [the stamp] was introduced in 2005." (Read the group's full response here.)
Still, more of us could stand to gain from the well-documented health benefits of whole grain, so figuring out how to make it yummier while still being healthy would be a big plus for the many people who have yet to make the switch.
In Peterson's quest for better whole-grain taste, he found that ferulic acid in wheat bran blocked production of 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, a molecule that helps produce a warm, browned smell we associate with white bread. "If I were to give you this compound in pure form, it's very discernible," Peterson told The Salt. "It's a very nice baked note."
Chefs call that nice baked note the Maillard reaction, after a Frenchman who realized a century ago that it's what gives grilled steak and browned bread its rich flavor. (NPR's Joe Palca gives the lowdown on Maillard and how deliciousness can come from heating a mixture of sugars and amino acids.)
Bitter taste is also a problem for whole-wheat bread. Peterson has looked into that, too, and says the problem is not in the flour but in compounds created in fermentation and in the Maillard reaction. In the past, bakeries have tried different forms of flour to reduce bitterness, but Peterson thinks the solution lies in tweaking the proofing and baking process instead.
Removing ferulic acid from whole-wheat bran isn't the answer, Peterson thinks; he speculates that it may have health benefits. "You have to look at the whole picture and keep the good elements together."
He hopes that by figuring out just what makes whole-wheat bread taste and smell the way it does will help food manufacturers how to keep the nutritional goodness of whole grains, without losing the rich brown smell of freshly baked bread. Peterson's research was published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.
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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to introduce, along with my colleagues Rep. Cardin, Rep. Wolf, Rep. Hoyer, Rep. Lantos, Rep. Wamp, Rep. Slaughter, Rep. Aderholt and Rep. Hastings, this resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that the sharp escalation of anti-Semitism, including violence, throughout the region of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is of serious concern to the U.S. Congress and the American people. We should make a concerted effort in our respective countries to end this disturbing trend.
Anti-Semitism is a disease that has bedeviled previous generations of Jews throughout the centuries and formed a black spot on human history. As the 20th century witnessed the nadir of extreme violence against the Jewish community and their institutions, we must take extraordinary steps to ensure this plague does not infect the 21st century to contaminate future generations. Yet our work is cut out for us, as this past year Europe witnessed a profound increase in vandalism against Jewish cemeteries, synagogues and cultural property, as well as mob assaults, fire bombings and gunfire. This year already a Jewish rabbi was stabbed twice in his Paris synagogue by an assailant. Thankfully, he was released from the hospital the same day. Certainly our own country is not immune, as acts of vandalism and violence continue to sporadically occur. As these incidents made graphically clear, silence is not an option when we are witnesses to insensitivity and violence.
The Helsinki Commission, which I co-chair and on which Mr. Cardin serves has taken the lead in voicing concern and working for real change. On May 22, 2002, the Commission held a hearing to raise specific attention to the growing problem of anti-Semitic violence in the OSCE region. From that hearing a number of initiatives emerged. At the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Annual Session in Berlin last July, I introduced and successfully secured unanimous approval of a resolution denouncing anti-Semitism and calling for all OSCE governments to do more. Mr. Speaker, for the record, I submit the text of the OSCE PA resolution.
In addition, the U.S. delegation co-sponsored an unprecedented special session with the German delegation to further discuss the alarming trend with our fellow parliamentarians. In December, the Commission co-hosted here in Washington a parliamentary forum on anti-Semitism with German parliamentarians, also attended by a prominent member of the Senate of Canada, Jerry Grafstein. At the conclusion of this event, myself and the German co-chair, Gert Weisskirchen, signed a letter of intent highlighting specific areas for further work and pledging to enlist the support of other parliamentarians from OSCE participating States. I have submitted a copy of the letter of intent, for the record.
Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to introduce this resolution, and I am eager for the House to go on record in support, making sure both the Congress and our government are doing everything possible to see an end to this scourge. I am especially pleased that the resolution calls for all OSCE participating States to ensure effective law enforcement and prosecution of individuals perpetrating anti-Semitic violence, as well as urging the parliaments of all participating States to take concrete legislative action at the national level. In sum, I look forward to working with my colleagues to continue our steadfast efforts to see an end to anti-Semitic violence.


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Reed died in Southampton, New York, of an ailment related to his recent liver transplant, according to his literary agent
Lou Reed, the punk poet of rock ' n' roll who profoundly influenced generations of musicians as leader of the Velvet Underground and remained a vital solo performer for decades after, died Sunday at age 71.
Reed died in Southampton, New York, of an ailment related to his recent liver transplant, according to his literary agent, Andrew Wylie, who added that Reed had been in frail health for months. Reed shared a home in Southampton with his wife and fellow musician, Laurie Anderson, whom he married in 2008.
Reed never approached the commercial success of such superstars as the Beatles and Bob Dylan, but no songwriter to emerge after Dylan so radically expanded the territory of rock lyrics. And no band did more than the Velvet Underground to open rock music to the avant-garde — to experimental theater, art, literature and film, to William Burroughs and Kurt Weill, to John Cage and Andy Warhol, Reed's early patron.
Indie rock essentially beganin the 1960s with Reed and the Velvets; the punk, New Wave and alternative rock movements of the 1970s, '80s and '90s were all indebted to Reed, whose songs were covered by R.E.M., Nirvana, Patti Smith and countless others. "The first Velvet Underground record sold 30,000 copies in the first five years," Brian Eno, who produced albums by Roxy Music and Talking Heads among others, once said. "I think everyone who bought one of those 30,000 copies started a band!"
Reed's trademarks were a monotone of surprising emotional range and power; slashing, grinding guitar; and lyrics that were complex, yet conversational, designed to make you feel as if Reed were seated next to you. Known for his cold stare and gaunt features, he was a cynic and a seeker who seemed to embody downtown Manhattan culture of the 1960s and '70s and was as essential a New York artist as Martin Scorsese or Woody Allen. Reed's New York was a jaded city of drag queens, drug addicts and violence, but it was also as wondrous as any Allen comedy, with so many of Reed's songs explorations of right and wrong and quests for transcendence.
He had one top 20 hit, "Walk On the Wild Side," and many other songs that became standards among his admirers, from "Heroin" and "Sweet Jane" to "Pale Blue Eyes" and "All Tomorrow's Parties." Raised on doo-wop and Carl Perkins, Delmore Schwartz and the Beats, Reed helped shape the punk ethos of raw power, the alternative rock ethos of irony and droning music and the art-rock embrace of experimentation, whether the dual readings of Beat-influenced verse for "Murder Mystery," or, like a passage out of Burroughs' "Naked Lunch," the orgy of guns, drugs and oral sex on the Velvets' 15-minute "Sister Ray."
An outlaw in his early years, Reed would eventually perform at the White House, have his writing published in The New Yorker, be featured by the Public Broadcasting Service in an "American Masters" documentary and win a Grammy in 1999 for Best Long Form Music Video. The Velvet Underground was inducted into the Rock and Roll of Fame in 1996 and their landmark debut album, "The Velvet Underground & Nico," was added to the Library of Congress' registry in 2006. Reed called one song "Growing Up in Public" and his career was an ongoing exhibit of how any subject could be set to rock music — the death of a parent ("Standing On Ceremony), AIDS ("The Halloween Parade"), some favorite movies and plays ("Doin' the Things That We Want To"), racism ("I Want to be Black"), the electroshock therapy he received as a teen ("Kill Your Sons").
Reviewing Reed's 1989 topical album "New York," Village Voice critic Robert Christgau wrote that "the pleasure of the lyrics is mostly tone and delivery — plus the impulse they validate, their affirmation that you can write songs about this stuff. Protesting, elegizing, carping, waxing sarcastic, forcing jokes, stating facts, garbling what he just read in the Times, free-associating to doomsday, Lou carries on a New York conversation — all that's missing is a disquisition on real estate." He was one of rock's archetypal tough guys, but he grew up middle class — an accountant's son raised on Long Island, east of New York City. Reed was born to be a suburban dropout. He hated school, loved rock 'n' roll, fought with his parents and attacked them in song for forcing him to undergo electroshock therapy as a supposed "cure" for being bisexual. "Families that live out in the suburbs often make each other cry," he later wrote.
His real break began in college. At Syracuse University, he studied under Schwartz, whom Reed would call the first "great man" he ever encountered. He credited Schwartz with making him want to become a writer and to express himself in the most concrete language possible. Reed honored his mentor in the song "My House," recounting how he connected with the spirit of the late, mad poet through a Ouija board. "Blazing stood the proud and regal name Delmore," he sang.
Reed moved to New York City after college and traveled in the pop and art worlds, working as a house songwriter at the low-budget Pickwick Records and putting in late hours in downtown clubs. One of his Pickwick songs, the dance parody "The Ostrich," was considered commercial enough to record. Fellow studio musicians included a Welsh-born viola player, John Cale, with whom Reed soon performed in such makeshift groups as the Warlocks and the Primitives.
They were joined by a friend of Reed's from Syracuse, guitarist-bassist Sterling Morrison; and by an acquaintance of Morrison's, drummer Maureen Tucker, who tapped out simple, hypnotic rhythms while playing standing up. They renamed themselves the Velvet Underground after a Michael Leigh book about the sexual subculture. By the mid-1960s, they were rehearsing at Warhol's "Factory," a meeting ground of art, music, orgies, drug parties and screen tests for films that ended up being projected onto the band while it performed, part of what Warhol called the "Floating Plastic Inevitable."
"Warhol was the great catalyst," Reed told BOMB magazine in 1998. "It all revolved around him. It all happened very much because of him. He was like a swirl, and these things would come into being: Lo and behold multimedia. There it was. No one really thought about it, it was just fun."
Before the Velvets, references to drugs and sex were often brief and indirect, if only to ensure a chance at radio and television play. In 1967, the year of the Velvets' first album, the Rolling Stones were pressured to sing the title of their latest single as "Let's Spend Some Time Together" instead of "Let's Spend the Night Together" when they were performing on TV on "The Ed Sullivan Show." The Doors fought with Sullivan over the word "higher" from "Light My Fire."
The Velvets said everything other bands were forbidden to say and some things other bands never imagined. Reed wrote some of rock's most explicit lyrics about drugs ("Heroin," ''Waiting for My Man"), sadomasochism ("Venus in Furs") and prostitution ("There She Goes Again"). His love songs were less stories of boy-meets-girl, than ambiguous studies of the heart, like the philosophical games of "Some Kinda Love" or the weary ballad "Pale Blue Eyes," an elegy for an old girlfriend and a confession to a post-breakup fling:
__ It was good what we did yesterday And I'd do it once again The fact that you are married Only proves you're my best friend But it's truly, truly a sin ___
Away from the Factory, the Velvets were too ahead of their time, getting tossed out of clubs or having audience members walk out. The mainstream press, still seeking a handle on the Beatles and the Stones, was thrown entirely by the Velvet Underground. The New York Times at first couldn't find the words, calling the Velvets "Warhol's jazz band" in a January 1966 story and "a combination of rock 'n' roll and Egyptian belly-dance music" just days later. The Velvets' appearance in a Warhol film, "More Milk, Yvette," only added to the dismay of Times critic Bosley Crowther.
"Also on the bill is a performance by a group of rock 'n' roll singers called the Velvet Underground," Crowther wrote. "They bang away at their electronic equipment, while random movies are thrown on the screen in back of them. When will somebody ennoble Mr. Warhol with an above-ground movie called 'For Crying Out Loud'?"
At Warhol's suggestion, they performed and recorded with the sultry, German-born Nico, a "chanteuse" who sang lead on a handful of songs from their debut album. A storm cloud over 1967's Summer of Love, "The Velvet Underground & Nico" featured a now-iconic Warhol drawing of a (peelable) banana on the cover and proved an uncanny musical extension of Warhol's blank-faced aura. The Velvets juxtaposed childlike melodies with dry, affectless vocals on "Sunday
Morning" and "Femme Fatale." On "Heroin," Cale's viola screeched and jumped behind Reed's obliterating junkie's journey, with his sacred vow, "Herrrrrr-o-in, it's my wife, and it's my life," and his cry into the void, "And I guess that I just don't know."
"'Heroin' is the Velvets' masterpiece — seven minutes of excruciating spiritual extremity," wrote critic Ellen Willis. "No other work of art I know about has made the junkie's experience so horrible, so powerful, so appealing; listening to 'Heroin' I feel simultaneously impelled to somehow save this man and to reach for the needle."
Reed made just three more albums with the Velvet Underground before leaving in 1970. Cale was pushed out by Reed in 1968 (they had a long history of animosity) and was replaced by Doug Yule. Their sound turned more accessible, and the final album with Reed, "Loaded," included two upbeat musical anthems, "Rock and Roll" and "Sweet Jane," in which Reed seemed to warn Velvets fans — and himself — that "there's even some evil mothers/Well they're gonna tell you that everything is just dirt."
He lived many lives in the '70s, initially moving back home and working at his father's office, then competing with Keith Richards as the rock star most likely to die. He binged on drugs and alcohol, gained weight, lost even more and was described by critic Lester Bangs as "so transcendently emaciated he had indeed become insectival." Reed simulated shooting heroin during concerts, cursed out journalists and once slugged David Bowie when Bowie suggested he clean up his life. "Lou Reed is the guy that gave dignity and poetry and rock 'n' roll to smack, speed, homosexuality, sadomasochism, murder, misogyny, stumblebum passivity, and suicide," wrote Bangs, a dedicated fan and fearless detractor, "and then proceeded to belie all his achievements and return to the mire by turning the whole thing into a monumental bad joke with himself as the woozily insistent Henny Youngman in the center ring, mumbling punch lines that kept losing their punch."
His albums in the '70s were alternately praised as daring experiments or mocked as embarrassing failures, whether the ambitious song suite "Berlin" or the wholly experimental "Metal Machine Music," an hour of electronic feedback. But in the 1980s, he kicked drugs and released a series of acclaimed albums, including "The Blue Mask," ''Legendary Hearts" and "New Sensations."
He played some reunion shows with the Velvet Underground and in 1990 teamed with Cale for "Drella," a spare tribute to Warhol. He continued to receive strong reviews in the 1990s and after for such albums as "Set the Twilight Reeling" and "Ecstasy" and he continued to test new ground, whether a 2002 concept album about Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven," or a 2011 collaboration with Metallica, "Lulu."
Reed fancied dictionary language like "capricious" and "harridan," but he found special magic in the word "bells," sounding from above, "up in the sky," as he sang on the Velvets' "What Goes On." A personal favorite was the title track from a 1979 album, "The Bells." Over a foggy swirl of synthesizers and horns, suggesting a haunted house on skid row, Reed improvised a fairy tale about a stage actor who leaves work late at night and takes in a chiming, urban "Milky Way." ___ It was really not so cute to play without a parachute As he stood upon the ledge Looking out, he thought he saw a brook And he hollered, 'Look, there are the bells!' And he sang out, 'Here come the bells! Here come the bells! Here come the bells! Here come the bells!'


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The difference between these three types of secondhand stores:
THRIFT-The main purpose of stores like Goodwill and the Salvation Army is to sell used clothes at a low price to make them more accessible for a lot of people. They're not that interested in making a huge profit for themselves and as with most thrift stores the money goes to charity. They just want people with less money to have more access to good clothes. It takes a lot of patience to find something you like but can definitely be worth it.Why I love thrift: everything here was $1 each. The polka dotted skirt was in great shape and still had it's H&M tags, which read $20.
VINTAGE-Usually vintage owners go to the nearby thrift store to pick out a bunch of well-kept, vintage-looking clothes for 3 bucks and sell for 15. The thing with most vintage stores is that their prices are more for the environment or convenience of the store's location than the actual dress or shirt itself. The good thing about vintage is that you already have all the thrift gems picked out for you and don't have to spend a lot of time looking through the racks of a thrift store.I got them on sale, but the original price for these sunglasses were $12 at a vintage store.
CONSIGNMENT/RESALE-If you're an Aberzombie-turned-fashion blogger these stores will happily take your old clothes and give you pretty good money for them. Consignment and Resale stores generally cater to the clothing interests of people that are just looking to save money on a pair of jeans rather than paying the full $45 at American Eagle. It's hard finding cool, one-of-a-kind period pieces here because they want to sell to more generically dressed folk. Also, most people that have brains will sell their 30's dress on eBay and make $40 instead of selling it to a resale store for $10.
Thrifting is my personal favorite because it saves the most money, supports a good cause, and is most fun! Buying secondhand in general is also a nice choice because it helps the environment.
- Think about what you already have in your closet. When you're contemplating buying an item, think of something you would wear it with so you know you'll get use out of it.Everything here is thrifted. I bought the shirt because I already owned the rest of these items and wanted to wear it all together.
- Inspect the item a little. You don't know how long it's been sitting around, so if there are stains or smells, they've probably set in and won't come out. Especially important if you're looking for stuff to sell on Etsy or eBay.
- Look at the washing requirements. If the jacket you want requires like -324839839 degree water and a special kind of bleach from the islands of Fiji or something, it might not be worth it. Most of my clothes can be washed in our basement washing machine, so I rarely buy anything I have to get dry cleaned. If I do, it sits around for a while before I actually get to it. If you are less lazy than I and will actually get it done then buy it and congratulate yourself for being so efficient!Oh, the days of summer. Everything here was thrifted. Flannel shirts and jeans aren't hard to wash.
- Some things are one-of-a-kind and you feel like you HAVE to get them the moment they catch your eye, but sometimes one-of-a-kind doesn't always equal versatility. You will always find tons of zebra striped skirts or oversized sweaters. LET IT GO, MAN. YOU AND SHINY PINK NIKE WINDBREAKER WERE NEVER GOING TO LAST.No need to fret young grasshopper, you will always be able to find sweaters like these!
- Make sure something will fit you how you want it to fit you. Some thrift stores don't have dressing rooms, but just holding a shirt up against your chest should give you an idea. Moohoop has a good post on dressing for thrifting, very helpful. When you tell yourself you're going to hem a skirt, will you actually get around to it? Psh, I haven't. Um, this post is truly exposing my lazy side.This $6 vest works well oversized.
Thrifting might not seem like something that requires much thought because it's all so unexpensive, but it all adds up. When I purge my closet, usually 3/4ths of what I'm taking out I have thrifted. Even though each item individually was $3, I could've saved maybe $30 just from thinking more about how much wear I'll get out of an item. I know the blazer you have your eye on is just four bucks, but that money could be better spent on kid drugs (candy). Or lots of shitty tabloids. Or some Pokemon cards. Or a more awesome blazer you'll actually wear.
Hope this helps, sending good thrift vibes your way!


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The Atlanta, GA, quartet Mastodon plays an innovative, hard-to-categorize blend of metal, grindcore, and hardcore that puts them right at home on the Relapse label alongside the likes of Today Is the Day, the Dillinger Escape Plan, Coalesce, Burnt by the Sun, and other boundary-crossing acts. The group's lineup actually includes two former members of Today Is the Day: guitarist Bill Kelliher and drummer Bränn Dailor (both also onetime members of the band Lethargy). Their lineup is rounded out by bassist/vocalist Troy Sanders and guitarist/vocalist Brent Hinds. They released their debut EP, Lifesblood, on Relapse in the fall of 2001. Remission was released the following year, and after the band toured for much of 2003, a second full-length, Leviathan, arrived in 2004. In 2006, the group compiled all of their early recordings -- including the tracks from the Lifesblood EP -- and released Call of the Mastodon. It was followed by the DVD Workhorse Chronicles and the all-new Blood Mountain.


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Now it's South Carolina's turn.
If the Palmetto State, the "First in the South" primary, plays its traditional role in the Republican presidential nomination process, it will be where the White House hopes of virtually every candidate except the eventual nominee will go to die in about 10 days.
It's not for nothing that it's called the "South Carolina Firewall." And at this moment, it's looking like it's Romney's firewall.
Ever since 1980, the state's voters have correctly chosen the eventual Republican nominee, who has invariably been the candidate the party's establishment types have chosen to rally around.
The state's primary was intended to be the place where the candidate with the imprimatur of most GOP movers and shakers could stop a surging challenger. It's meant to end candidacies that catch fire in Iowa and New Hampshire but are viewed as weak general-election prospects.
With his wins in Iowa and New Hampshire, Mitt Romney now heads to South Carolina in an enviable position. Some earlier front-runners, Bob Dole in 1996 and George W. Bush in 2000, for instance, pivoted to South Carolina after their rivals won New Hampshire — Patrick Buchanan in the former case, Sen. John McCain in the latter.
Romney, by contrast, will arrive as the first non-incumbent Republican to have won both the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary.
Romney's challengers have indicated they nevertheless plan an all-out assault on the former Massachusetts governor in South Carolina, questioning his conservative credentials in a very right-of-center state.
South Carolina is likely the last chance some of them will have to upend Romney before the contest moves to Florida, a sprawling state whose numerous media markets favor a campaign with a huge war chest like Romney's.
That growing sense of desperation on the part of some of Romney's rival campaigns, coupled with the state's reputation for vicious campaign tactics, suggests South Carolina will be a raucous, bare-knuckle affair.
It is, after all, the state where Lee Atwater, the hardball political strategist who was one of the most aggressive admen of 20th century American politics, perfected his craft.
"We have a history of being pretty down and dirty here in politics," said David Woodard, a Clemson University political science professor. "You can go back to 2000. Almost every race you can find something that was pretty unsavory about it. And so I don't think this is going to be any Sunday school picnic over here."
The 2000 presidential race, of course, featured a South Carolina whisper campaign that McCain had fathered a black baby out of wedlock. The rumor apparently mutated from the fact that McCain and his wife, Cindy, adopted a Bangladeshi child.
As a former governor of Massachusetts, the very epitome of a Yankee — who once professed views far more moderate than he claims now — Romney was bound to face serious opposition in what is a deeply conservative Southern state.
Indeed, his GOP opponents like Newt Gingrich argue that Romney isn't a reliable conservative, a serious knock in a state where Tea Party sympathies run high.
Romney also faces some resistance in a state where evangelical Christians form a large part of the electorate. In 2008, they constituted nearly 60 percent of Republican primary voters.
Not only are many of those religious voters suspicious of Romney because of his past, more moderate stands on social issues, including abortion; many also take a dim view of his Mormon faith, believing it to be a cult.
But while Romney has some vulnerabilities as his campaign decamps New Hampshire and descends on South Carolina, he also has some advantages.
Aside from having the most money, Romney also has the luxury of a deeply divided opposition. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Jon Huntsman are all splitting the anyone-but-Romney vote, with Santorum, Gingrich and Perry particularly fracturing the conservative vote. And that opposition has little time to unify before the primary on Jan. 21.
It could be reminiscent of the 2008 South Carolina Republican primary. That's when Fred Thompson siphoned enough social-conservative voters away from Mike Huckabee, who had recently won the Iowa caucuses, to allow McCain to win. That effectively ended the most significant threat to McCain's winning the nomination.
The average of the most recent three South Carolina polls shows Romney with a 9.3 percentage point lead, a significant turnabout in a race in which he just a few weeks ago badly trailed Gingrich.
Gingrich, the former House speaker, acknowledged Tuesday that his last chance at the nomination is South Carolina. He's hoping his career as a former congressman from neighboring Georgia and an early Tea Party supporter will allow him to regain lost ground on Romney.
But Gingrich and his allies aren't leaving it at that. Along with Perry, they hope to damage Romney in South Carolina, a state with a 9.9 percent jobless rate, by charging that as the head of Bain Capital, a private-equity firm that invested in other companies, Romney bore responsibility for laying off U.S. workers.
Romney will be greeted in South Carolina when he arrives there Wednesday with a 30-minute mini-documentary called " When Mitt Came To Town."
The movie portrays the Republican front-runner as a onetime corporate predator. It's part of a relatively massive $3.4 million advertising blitz by a pro-Gingrich super PAC to stop Romney. Perry, who sidestepped New Hampshire to focus on South Carolina, has joined Gingrich in recent days to raise doubts about Romney's business past.
Romney, however, clearly has the all-important political momentum behind him as he heads south. That's an entirely different situation from four years ago when, after coming in second to McCain in New Hampshire, Romney quit campaigning early in South Carolina before the primary, eventually finishing fourth there.
Now, he looks like a winner of the sort South Carolina GOP primary voters have a track record of choosing. And that's despite the fact that he's not inspiring a lot of excitement.
"You don't see a whole lot of enthusiasm ... but I'd say [Romney's] looking pretty good," said Andy Marion, who took a few minutes to chat with me last week after the Republican club luncheon in Columbia, S.C.
Marion, a retired entrepreneur, actually likes Huntsman but thinks Romney will most likely win South Carolina. "People are for him without being jumping-up-and-down excited."
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The first excerpts are out from 's upcoming biography of former Penn State head football Joe Paterno.
As GQ, which has them, writes: Paterno gave Posnanski permission to spend last year's football season closely following him. What no one knew, of course, was that with just a few weeks to go in the season Penn State would be rocked by former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky's arrest on charges of sexually molesting young boys. Just days later, Paterno would lose his job for allegedly not doing enough years earlier to alert authorities about what Sandusky had been accused of doing.
In one of the excerpts, Posnanski writes about what Paterno said and did last Nov. 10 — the day after his firing:
"Paterno met with his coaches at his house. He sobbed uncontrollably. ... Later, one of his former captains, Brandon Short, stopped by the house. When Brandon asked, 'How are you doing, Coach?' Paterno answered, 'I'm okay,' but the last syllable was shaky, muffled by crying, and then he broke down and said, 'I don't know what I'm going to do with myself.' ...
" 'My name,' he told [his son] Jay, 'I have spent my whole life trying to make that name mean something. And now it's gone.' "
The Book — Paterno — goes on sale next Tuesday. GQ plans to post more excerpts next Monday. It also has more from the book in its September issue, which is on newsstands now.
Paterno died in January. He had cancer. Sandusky was convicted in June on 45 of 48 charges he faced.
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GRAND JUNCTION Ill confess that Im an environmentalist, an earth muffin. So what was I doing having drinks and dinner at the DoubleTree Hotel in Grand Junction with retired executives from Exxon-Mobil, the largest oil company in the world?
Exxon and I go way back. Our fates are intertwined. In the early 1980s, when Exxon jumped into developing oil shale I was teaching fourth grade in Silt.
The oil shale boom was amazing. The largest corporation in the world decided to create an 8 million-barrel-per-day industry by 2010. Thousands of workers poured into the Colorado River Valley from the depressed Midwest and South.
Beginning in 1980, the local economy roared with Exxon spending a million dollars a day in a valley 60 miles long and 20 miles wide. That was like driving a dump truck full of $100 bills through small towns and leaving the tailgate open. It was boomtown euphoria.
Everyone had work. Everyone was busy. Because of limited housing, Exxon established man camps up Parachute Creek for workers on round-the-clock shifts. Pastors scrambled to build new churches. Prostitutes arrived from Denver to ply their trade out of Volkswagen buses. Even Danny the Bum made spare change sweeping Parachutes streets.
It was a free-for-all with a rush to build new schools, add on to hospitals, pave streets, erect town halls, hire deputies, plat subdivisions, recruit teachers and, on 2,300 acres across the Colorado River from Parachute, build an entirely new town called Battlement Mesa complete with a golf course, shopping mall and housing from trailers to executive homes on the 18th hole.
We were a bright spot in the nations economy. Exxon promised its workers years of employment. Executives arrived from Texas in tailored jeans, hand-tooled boots, broad smiles and firm grips.
Were from Houston, and were here to help you, they said.
County commissioners smiled back. Everyone trotted out their wish lists for new infrastructure, libraries, services. The future couldnt have looked better, though perhaps not for the environment. Exxon projected 1.5 million people living on the Western Slope, and air quality diminished to a Denver haze. A professor called it voodoo economics.
Then on Sunday, May 2, 1982, it all went pop. The boom busted. Exxons board of directors frowned at the declining price of oil and pulled the plug. Jerked the rug. Left the valley in shock.
I lived through all that. I watched my friends lose their jobs, their houses and, finally, their marriages. The president of First National Bank in Grand Junction shot himself. First National Bank in Rifle closed because so many people demanded their money. Desperate depositors lined the block.
Businesses that had survived the Great Depression in the 1930s failed after Exxons pullout. Overnight, 2,300 people lost their jobs. Within a week, there were no U-Haul trailers within 100 miles. By summers end, 5,000 people deserted the valley and over the next few years, 15,000 people would become Colorado exiles. My wife and I left, too.
We went to graduate school and there, 1,200 miles away, I wrote my doctoral dissertation on the history of oil shale development. Boomtown Blues: Colorado Oil Shale won the Colorado Book Award. Business Week wrote: The havoc that shale hysteria wreaked on the small towns that dot the expanses of Western Colorado is the subject of Boomtown Blues. ... Gulliford frames the tale as a morality play in which the villain is played by Exxon. ... (T)he book is more than colorful history. It is a warning we would do well to heed.
So what was I doing last month drinking Texas Shiner Bock beer with 32 Exxon retirees and their spouses? Trying to learn what had happened to them, to put a face on a corporation.
In 2010, retirees who had worked on the Colony Oil Shale Project and Battlement Mesa staged a 30-year reunion to commemorate the projects beginning. Now, in May 2012, they came together to remember the bust.
I received an email invitation from Rhonda Atchee, then executive secretary to Charles Pence, the man who had taken sagebrush and hay meadows near Parachute and created a new town. What the hell, I thought. Why not? Im a historian. I should go. I might learn something. And I did.
Id already learned that Exxon had misled county commissioners in Mesa, Garfield and Rio Blanco counties by painting a rosy picture of massive oil shale development while the company itself had secret 30-day shutdown clauses so that it could get out of multimillion-dollar construction contracts. Commissioners assumed Exxon meant what it publicly proposed.
Lifes funny and deals you different cards, said the now-silver-haired Pence, former president of Battlement Mesa Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Exxon. He cautioned, You have to stop and look all the way through the bust. The oil company thought about the shareholders. A company like that cant accommodate a small group of people.
Bob Skyles spent 29 years with Exxon and told me, When we came here in 1981, we thought this was to be our final assignment. We were heartbroken after the shutdown. Exxon came in here with both feet and they didnt have their shoes on.
I agree that corporate machismo had a lot to do with Exxons big, boisterous push for oil shale. Fortune magazine estimated that Exxon spent $720 million in less than two years. I learned that the total cost, with corporate transfers and the required reclamation work, probably was $1 billion.
Employees felt numb by the shutdown just as locals did. A few former workers long to retire in Colorado. Some couples already have.
Even though the project failed, the esprit de corps continues to this day, said engineer Larry Hayes, who was in charge of the oil shale mine.
Hes written a privately printed book titled Lost Colony: Exxons Bold Oil Shale Venture. Hayes explains that working on the project was one of the best times Ive ever had.
We lived in nine different states and three foreign countries, but we never had more fun than here.
I was impressed by their allegiance to each other and their commitment to their careers, but I couldnt help but think of all the local lives shattered by Exxons corporate hubris the decade-long economic depression between Grand Junction and Rifle, the bankruptcies, the foreclosures, the failed marriages, the lost hopes. History isnt just what we remember: Its also what we choose to forget.
Oil shale is still there.
Thirty years ago, Fortune wrote that Exxons departure from oil shale had all the abruptness of a teenager making a screeching U-turn. Lets not repeat past mistakes. Lets wait for a proven technology that does not squander water, pollute the air and threaten wildlife and archaeological sites. The Old West was boom and bust. The Next West must embody environmentally and socially responsible energy development.
Imagine if in the 1980s Exxons board of directors had dedicated that same billion dollars to solar energy instead of squeezing rocks. Where would we be now?
Andrew Gulliford is a professor of history and environmental studies at Fort Lewis College. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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Clayton Kershaw (-, -.--) vs. Ross Ohlendorf (-, -.--).
COMMENTS: Nothing like an off-day to mull over a sucky start-o'-the-season battering and watch the Giants take first place in the division. Whatever reason Joe Torre had for booting up his iPadilla on Opening Day is moot, for Clayton Kershaw, who would look like a porcupine if we could see all the hopes pinned upon him, is taking the mound.
So enjoy today's g— what's this? Another note from Sax?
1: Gene J. Puskar/AP; 2: from Exalted Beauty


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In no uncertain terms, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., through his words, deeds and legacy, has been an inspiration for people around the world. Among Alexandria schoolchildren it's a relationship that in its most expressive form has existed since 1990 and the birth of the citywide Martin Luther King Jr. Poster Contest.
The works of the contest prize-winners, to be announced Monday afternoon Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the City Council chambers, will hang for all to see in the Vola Lawson Lobby of City Hall through the end of February.
Although there is a new theme every year, the focal point remains King, the reverend, orator and civil rights leader who helped bring about equal rights for Americans of all faces.
In a school system where students are funneled to a high school whose namesake, T.C. Williams, is that of a segregationist superintendent, creating the vibrant and varied artworks inspired by King is an ongoing learning experience for students.
This year's batch is no exception.
"I learned that he wasn't famous for just saying, 'I have a dream,'" said George Mason fifth grader Zachary McEvoy. "I kind of already knew that but I thought it was more important that he changed the world and helped black and white people have equal rights."
McEvoy said he sampled a bit from his artwork last year, creating a pulsating portrait of King that references the famed speech and his work for peace that helped earn him the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize.
"I thought [what King accomplished] was great because I kind of want to be like him when I grow up and help people," McEvoy said, thinking of possibilities to better the lives of "homeless people and animals."
Jefferson-Houston fourth grade student Narisse King said she was really proud of the poster she made this year.
"Freedom is one of the best things that the world can have," she said. "It's better to have freedom than be a slave or something.
"I think that he did a very good thing and if he hadn't done what he did, we probably wouldn't be like this now."
"We got to extend our boundaries of what we knew Martin Luther King did for the world," Narisse said.
It may be an understatement to say that now, with the nation's first black president entering his second year on the job, is far different from King's 1960s or even when the contest began just 20 years ago.
Carlton Funn, current chairman of the Alexandria Society for the Preservation of Black Heritage which runs the event with the Alexandria Black History Museum, has never ceased to be amazed by the students' work.
"The fascinating thing about this is to walk through the Vola Lawson Lobby and you get into the heads of these children, you get to see what's on the childrens' minds," Funn said. "This fascinates me every year."
Today, each of Alexandria's 13 public elementary schools are supposed to submit three contestants from each grade for consideration in the citywide competition. Cora Kelly elementary school missed out this year, Funn said, but in years past the judges have deliberated over as many as 195 entries.
Buzzing among his many commitments on Tuesday and Wednesday, Funn, who turns 78 at the end of the month, took time to reflect on how the contest has grown over the years.
"We wanted to make sure that we carried on the thoughts and the life work of Dr. King and we've continued it for 20 years," said Funn, a teacher for 38 years. "It started out that way and each year it has gotten better and better.
"Children can show a lot to you when they present you a picture."
It's something the students appreciate as well.
"Art is cool I can express myself better," Narisse said while explaining her drawing.
George Mason third-grader Ava Lovain said the project was fun and thinks this year's poster was "probably" her best one yet.
She drew Martin Luther King Jr. and "all the people who wanted him to make a difference then, and then I drew now, today, how black people have equal rights," Lovain said.
"Only the judges have seen the posters," Funn said Tuesday afternoon. "All of you need to come to the program on the 18th … and then you will learn something about these children. I was not a judge, I don't do the judging, but they all talked about how great they were."


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Professor Emeritus of East Asian Studies Frederick Mote, a leading
scholar of Chinese history and culture, died Feb. 10 in Aurora, Colo.,
after a long illness. He was 82.
Mote, a Princeton faculty member from 1956 to 1987, was one of a small
number of academic pioneers who were instrumental in transforming the
study of China and East Asia in the United States into a mature field
with high standards and a distinguished record of scholarly
achievement. At Princeton, he played a major role in the development of
the Department of East Asian Studies and is remembered by his
colleagues and students for his broad knowledge and wise counsel.
"Professor Mote influenced and enriched the field by his erudition, his
farsightedness and his constructive criticism. He influenced his
students by his love, his humor and his thoughtful guidance. He is
truly a scholar, a historian and a gentleman," said Hung-lam Chu, who
received a Ph.D. from Princeton in 1984 and is now a professor of
history at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Mote became a student of Chinese history and culture after enlisting in
the U.S. Army Air Forces in 1943. He was sent to a military unit at
Harvard University and trained under two prominent Sinologists. He went
to China in 1944 as a noncommissioned officer in the Office of
Strategic Services. After World War II ended, he returned there and
became one of the first Westerners to enroll as an undergraduate at the
University of Nanjing, where he earned his bachelor's degree in 1948 in
Chinese history.
Mote continued his studies at the University of Washington-Seattle, and
received his Ph.D. in Sinology in 1954. After spending the 1954-55 year
as a postdoctoral researcher at National Taiwan University and the
following year as a Fulbright Exchange Lecturer at the University of
Leiden in the Netherlands, he was appointed an assistant professor of
Chinese history and civilization at Princeton in what was then the
Department of Oriental Studies. He was promoted to associate professor
in 1959 and to full professor in 1963. He twice received Guggenheim
Mote spent his early years at Princeton working with others to
establish a rigorous Chinese language program and to improve the
facilities and expand the holdings of the Gest Oriental Library. He and
his colleague, Marius Jansen, a specialist in Japanese history, were
key figures in the growth of East Asian studies at Princeton in the
1960s and 1970s. They secured financial support from the John D.
Rockefeller and Ford foundations in 1961, the Carnegie Corporation in
1963 and the U.S. Department of Education in 1965.
That support enabled the University to acquire a wealth of new
materials for the Gest Library, to establish a highly-regarded Chinese
linguistics program -- which Mote directed from 1966 to 1974 -- and to
add a number of new East Asian specialists to the faculty. The
Department of East Asian Studies was established at Princeton in 1969.
Beyond Princeton, Mote was active in many organizations, including the
Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of
China, of which he was a founding member; the Committee on Studies of
Chinese Civilization of the American Council of Learned Societies,
which he chaired from 1974 to 1978; the Smithsonian Council; and the
Visiting Committee of the Freer Gallery of Art. From 1963 to 1965, he
served as an adviser to Thailand's Ministry of Education.
Mote's scholarship focused on the political and social history of the
later imperial era, with special reference to the Yuan and Ming
dynasties. He wrote, edited and translated numerous books, scholarly
articles and essays on subjects ranging from classical Chinese
philosophy to military history and from studies of great Chinese cities
to ways in which poetry, painting and other arts could be used to gain
a fuller understanding of Chinese economic, social and cultural history.
He was involved in the planning and editing of the Cambridge History of
China and wrote 23 entries on Ming history for the Cambridge
Encyclopedia of China. His final book, "Imperial China 900-1800"
(Harvard University Press, 1999), was based on a lifetime of reflection
and provides a comprehensive survey of this period of Chinese history.
Hung-lam Chu, Mote's former student, also said of his adviser, "His
accomplishment in integrating Chinese classical, historical,
philosophical, literary, language and artistic learning for an in-depth
understanding of traditional Chinese culture for a better understanding
of the problems facing modern China is unique and unsurpassed. His use
of poetry and literary collections for the study of the mind and
sentiment of 14th- to 17th-century Chinese literati and the political
and social milieu in which they lived has attained a level of
achievement that his peers could only hope to have had. His last book,
'Imperial China 900-1800,' will stand as a classic of sustained
learning, consummate scholarship and insightful commentary to inspire
the student of Chinese history and culture for a better appreciation of
China's past and a better understanding of China's present."
Students and colleagues alike spoke of Mote's generosity in sharing his
broad knowledge of China. "Everything he wrote was grounded in the
sources, all at his finger tips, recallable without reference to
notes," said Norman Itzkowitz, professor emeritus of Near Eastern studies,
who remembered first meeting Mote as a junior colleague -- although "he
never made those age and academic hierarchy distinctions" -- and soon
regarding him as a valued friend. He added, "Fritz will live forever in
the hearts and minds of all those who had the great, good fortune to
know him."
"As a principled intellect and a warm-hearted teacher, Fritz Mote
helped broaden my vistas on Sinology and history and sharpen my
methodological and research skills," said Hok-lam Chan, who earned a
Ph.D, from Princeton in 1967 and is now a faculty member at the
University of Washington and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. "For
this and his professional guidance, I am deeply indebted to him. He
left a durable legacy of scholarship remarkable for its critical
assessment, but deep love and respect of Chinese civilization, and he
will be sorely missed by his students, colleagues and friends."
Mote is survived by his wife, Ch'en Hsiao-lan of Granby, Colo., a
sister and six brothers. Memorial services were held in Beijing on Feb.
15 and in Taipei on March 5. A memorial symposium in Princeton is being
planned for the fall and will feature a series of panel discussions on
issues in Chinese history and culture.
Memorial contributions may be made to: the Frederick W. Mote Memorial
Fund for the East Asian Library, c/o Dr. Tai-loi Ma, 33 Frist Campus
Center, Room 317, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544; or to the
F.W. Mote Lecture Fund, c/o Director, East Asian Studies Program, 241
Frist Campus Center, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544. Checks
for both funds should be made payable to the Trustees of Princeton