Mon. Nov. 13

Hey, who wants to hear about more politics?! The 2006 season has ended and most of us are sickened and disgusted by the tone and tenor of the campaigns - just like always. And, as inevitably as ducks being drawn to water, we - and the politicians - will wade back into the muck next year, when the 2008 races, including the big one, for King of America, take shape. And we'll complain some more. If you can bear hearing about what might be coming, go to the Harvard Book Store Monday Nov. 13 at 6:30 to hear Mark Halperin, political director of ABC News, and John Harris, political editor for the Washington Post, discuss their book, "The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008." The two note that the traditional power brokers in the media, don't have quite the power of yore, and note that internet scourge Matt Drudge - who they call "salacious, reckless, superficial and unfair" - wields "singular power." Depressingly, but correctly, they note the way a candidate should answer questions is by giving the same rehearsed response every time, so some slip-up doesn't become a Kerryism and shake the nation. Free.

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