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Clintonian familiarity establishes itself in a process of show-and-tell. We show each other our trials, then we tell each other how concerned we are about them and how determined we are to make things better. Clinton led the national show-and-tell with a tour of the stations...
Clinton is not the only public figure who achieves familiarity through show- and-tell. At the Democratic Convention, Al Gore relived the car accident that nearly killed his young son, and Paul Tsongas told us about his battle with cancer, which he now must face again. For years Jesse Jackson...
The religion of familiarity has problems. The first is that though it promises to be comprehensive, it in fact leaves a lot of people out. Suppose you have an unpopular disease? To hear Clinton and his peers tell it, the only reason anyone dies in America is because of AIDS...
That may come as a surprise to those who have read Feynman's two popular autobiographies, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! and What Do You Care What Other People Think?, or to those who watched him dip a bit of rubber in ice water during the Challenger accident investigation...
Nunn said the threat of nuclear escalation islow, but increasing economic, political, andethnic tension in the regions heighten the risk ofan accident or unauthorized launch.