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Presidential candidates: Where are they now?
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Edited | Thomas Walker Jun 27, 2008 10:56am |
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| Category | General |
| Media | Newspaper - Boston Globe |
| News Date | Friday, June 27, 2008 04:55:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Newsweek magazine used to run a feature, "Where Are They Now?" It was delightfully inane, filled with press-agent plantings, not unlike Parade magazine's irresistible "Personality Parade." Where is Doris Day Now? Newsweek would ask, and answer its own question: She's on her estate outside of Carmel, being nice to animals.
Newsweek always waited a decent interval before resurrecting the boldface names, to provoke the desired reaction: Oh, that's what became of so-and-so. But time happens faster now. Need proof? In 2007, the Sharper Image started its "after-Christmas sale" on Dec. 21.
Even though it was barely six months ago that John Edwards, Mike Huckabee, and the unstoppable candidate of inevitability, Fred Thompson, were household names hogging our television screens, today the erstwhile presidential candidates are virtual nonpersons. Do you remember someone named Tom Tancredo? Where is he now? |
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