Politics

  1. Keep hydrated. A good rule of thumb is to make sure you're drinking eight ounces of water, tea or juice every couple of hours.
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    Eat a healthy, nourishing breakfast. You're going to need a lot of energy.

    Remember that "Ted Cruz" rhymes with "Fed Snooze." Keep that one in your back pocket.

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  2. Sharpay Evans: [to Fulton] I told you to hire Troy Bolton, not the entire East High student body! "It is fear that drives [the hippies] to seek the warmth, the protection, the safety of a herd. When they speak of merging themselves into a "greater whole," it is their fear that they hope to drown in the undemanding waves of unfastidious human bodies - and what they hope to fish out of that pool is the…

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  3. In the summer of 2011, I had two jobs. One was in the Cook County Jail’s drug treatment facility, Division VI; the other was at a summer school on the South Side for Chicago public schools. The similarities were chilling. The inmates of both places were delivered the same bland, partially frozen food: Bologna in tiny tortillas, waxy apples, and milk that had solidified. Go-gurt, for some reason.

    In both cases, the food came…

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  4. “I know who held the knife, but they might as well have put it in his hands,” wrote the mother of Jasmine, a 27-year-old woman who was murdered on 11 July by her former partner. "They" here refers to the Swedish state, which had removed Jasmine's children from her home within hours of learning that she was a sex worker. Custody of the children was awarded to the man who subsequently killed her. As…

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  5. So. I'm Italian. I was born here, and 35 years later, I still live here. I could give you a number of plausible-sounding reasons for it---I enjoy spending time with my family; I almost make a living as a writer in my native language---but, the truth is, I did try leaving. It didn't take. There always seems to be something bringing Italian women back, be it a desire to see our country get back on…

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  6. From USA Today: The most interesting lunch in the political world took place Monday at the White House, though officials said the chat between President Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton was more personal than professional. The president and his former secretary of state "have developed not just a strong working relationship, but also a genuine friendship," said White House spokesman Josh Earnest. "So," he added, "it's largely friendship that's on the agenda for the…

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