Vanity Fair

Another campaign story. This one breaks from the Obama-Hillary battle and returns to 1968, when Bobby Kennedy...

Another campaign story. This one breaks from the Obama-Hillary battle and returns to 1968, when Bobby Kennedy, John F Kennedy8217;s younger brother, launched his presidential campaign. An excerpt from Thurston Clarke8217;s upcoming book, A Time It Was: Bobby Kennedy in the Sixties, captures the moment, 40 years ago, when Kennedy roused America8217;s disillusioned youth with his stand against the Vietnam war. But Kennedy8217;s bid ended rather tragically with his assassination in June that year. 8220;Had you told anyone in the Senate caucus room that morning that during the next 82 days, President Johnson would decline to seek a second term, Martin Luther King Jr and Robert Kennedy would both be assassinated, and America would suffer its worst racial disturbances since the Civil War, they might have believed that one or two of those things might happen, but not all, nor in such quick succession,8221; writes the author.

Espn Magazine

Heard of Kimbo Slice? He8217;s the bald, bearded man with inked-up muscles staring at you from the cover. He is a YouTube legend who made a living from street brawls. Now TV network CBS has signed him on as mixed martial arts MMA makes its television debut on May 31. 8220;He fought clinically, without anger or fear8230; Friends say he has never been a bully, but he likes little else more than fighting them.8221; And all this while, we kept talking about Khali.

Newsweek

The world is complaining about an economic slowdown. But the richest of the rich and the businesses that serve them seem to be above such pedestrian concerns. 8220;The luxury market owes its resilience largely to the fact that it is less dependent than ever on American buyers who might have been hit by the slowdown.8221; In the past year alone, the number of billionaires worldwide has jumped by 20 per cent, to 1,125, according to Forbes8217;s annual list of the world8217;s filthy rich; in 2003, there were just 476.

The New Yorker

George Packer declares the fall of the Republican brand of conservatism in American politics. 8220;The polarisation of America, which we now call the 8216;culture wars8217;, has been dissipating for a long time 8212; After Reagan and the end of the Cold War, conservatism lost the ties that had bound together its disparate factions 8212; libertarians, evangelicals, neoconservatives, Wall Street, working-class traditionalists 8212; Among Republicans, there is no energy, no fresh thinking, no ability to capture the concerns and feelings of millions of people.8221;

Huffington Post Blog

Everyone8217;s yelling at Hillary Clinton. 8220;Inexcusable outburst8221;, says NYT. 8220;Strange and Tasteless8221;, says Time. All this because she said she isn8217;t leaving the race yet because anything was possible 8212; after all, Bob Kennedy was assassinated in the middle of his campaign. But Arianna Huffington writes that 8220;it8217;s time to stop yelling at Hillary to step down8221; and instead, 8220;start yelling at the super delegates to stand up8221;. She says that nothing will happen in the remaining primaries that will convince Hillary to leave the race. 8220;So it8217;s time for the uncommitted super delegates to stop their dithering, come out of hiding, hop off the fence, endorse Obama and officially bring this nominating process to an end.8221;

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