Hints and tips:
...When he introduced his “9-9-9” tax plan during a debate weeks ago, one candidate joked that he confused Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain’s radical proposal with a pizza advertisement....
...Neither has yet produced identifiable leaders with coherent thoughts (viz the campaigns of Herman Cain and Rick Perry)....
...When Mr Perry shed support in recent weeks it went not to Mr Romney but to the latest flavour of the week on the right, Herman Cain, the former head of Godfather’s Pizzas....
...“I want to make the tax code so simple that even Timothy Geithner [the Treasury secretary] can file his taxes on time,” he said....
...former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum, who came within a few hundred votes of the well-funded Pawlenty operation despite running a shoestring campaign focused on his social conservatism, and Herman Cain...
...Two of the candidates who attended – including Herman Cain, the former radio talk show host and chief executive of Godfather’s Pizza – were virtually unknown....
...The pizza magnate Hermann Cain could muster no specifics on any issues on Monday — beyond saying that the economy is like a train and the government is putting all the money in the caboose....
...The writer who comes to mind is James M Cain, the chosen heir of HL Mencken at the Baltimore Sun, who went on to write so many of the great Hollywood films noirs....
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