A decade ago, political observers say, Mr. McCain could never have pulled this off, and even now, his chances of victory on Saturday depend on an unprecedented turnout of natives and newcomers outside the Republican mainstream.
For three years I had walked this path every day, morning and afternoon, with the weight of the day before me or with the relief of casting it off, and even now that I lived on campus I walked it often, to the store or the gym, to cabs waiting at the gates.
She seemed to shiver slightly at the memory, as if trying to shake off the dust even now.
That television drama, which ran from 1957 to 1966, lingered in the public's imagination long after the show went off the air; even now there are people who remember the theme song (da dum da DUM) and still refer to lawyers as "Perry Masons".
The question is whether he can stave off that fate even now.
The present pope has too often been scapegoated for the sex abuse crisis, but America's bishops have if anything gotten off too easily, and even now seem insufficiently chastened for their sins.
Time and again he has promised that he would resign his post as chief of army staff and take off the uniform, but even now he is playing cute about when — and whether — that might happen.
Writing in Esquire in 1983, he merrily labeled his feminist detractors "brie brains" and "spit dribblers" before tossing off this memorable line: "Even now, far up in the wilderness in my cabin, where I just shot a lamprey passing upstream with my Magnum, I wouldn't have the heart to turn down a platter of hot buttered cheerleaders".
It is quite far off… (But) even now there are GPs in that same surgery who says so you think that Doctor [names GP] is going to get you better?
