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...Republicans are skilled at dressing plutocratic policies (such as a capital-gains-tax cut) in populist clothing. Above all, Republicans refuse to let mere principle get in the way of political victory. I'm not talking about universal principles such as truth and intellectual integrity. Both parties are adept at abandoning these trifles. But the Republicans have a special gift for putting aside their own particular political principles, if necessary, in order to win elections...
...easy to draw the obvious lesson from these test results. How much happier would we be, how much more successful as individuals and civil as a society, if we were more alert to the importance of emotional intelligence and more adept at teaching it? From kindergartens to business schools to corporations across the country, people are taking seriously the idea that a little more time spent on the "touchy-feely" skills so often derided may in fact pay rich dividends...
...largest cable company, is choosing to highlight the red-hot Internet, investing in his own Internet company as well as the Microsoft Network. "There is a growing distrust of one-way, packaged mass media," says Mark Stahlman of New Media Associates. This may mean that as people become more adept at navigating the World Wide Web, for instance, they will be less likely to depend on a single source of fun and news...
Camera operators are not so adept as reporters in sorting out events. They do not presume to know the answers, but seek rather to capture the situation in order to allow you to draw your own conclusions. By their very failings, they succeed. That is, reporters' reasoning often evolves into rationalization. But a lack of pretense on the part of those wielding the camera allows the action to take center stage...
...while girls outperformed boys in reading comprehension. In general, men as a group excel at tasks that involve orienting objects in space-like reading a map without having to turn it so it lines up with the road. Women, on the other hand, seem to be more adept at communication, both verbal and nonverbal. Readings of mri scans suggest one reason: women seem to have stronger connections between the two halves (hemispheres) of their brain...