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...that's not so easy. Once the monarch of the seas, he is now forced to scrounge humiliatingly for sponsorship in a crass and unfeeling world. In Bill Murray's sublime characterization, Zissou has the stunned air of a celebrity who has lost his mojo but can't admit...
...course, the audiences were carefully screened to admit only high-fiber Bush supporters. And on most nights the candidate was back home in the First Bedroom because he doesn't much like hotels. But the overall goal of running an outsider campaign came naturally. Bush has been President for only four years but has always been a punk at heart--the guy who in 1973 used to walk around Harvard during antiwar protests wearing cowboy boots and a bomber jacket, who was an outsider even in his own, high-achieving family (the black sheep, he once told the Queen...
Because the strategy worked, Democrats admit they'll have to look hard at their own model, which focused more on turning out loyal voters than on finding new ones. "The President was freshly minting Republicans all over the country, while we were building the greatest turnout machine ever," says Kerry adviser Mike McCurry. "The moral is that I don't think you could do a better job of funding, organizing and deploying a paid get-out-the-vote effort than we did, and it's just not enough to beat a Republican Party that is growing...
...piece of advice Bush ignored most diligently was the call for him to admit mistakes. It was not just the New York Times demanding that he apologize for alleging there was a link between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda, or Michael Moore saying he should apologize to dead soldiers' families for sending their kids into a war over oil. It was also a chorus of Republican wise men, like one who e-mailed a top White House official after a presidential press conference. "I wish he had found a way to admit a mistake. The press corps is not going...
...Social Studies and Visual & Environmental Studies. I have now followed both the video and the studio art tracks for several semesters, focusing on the role of arts within movements of social change. Looking back over my experiences in the department, I am filled with admiration and, I must admit, a few lingering questions. Is there an implicit direction in the transformative freedoms that are afforded to VES students as they explore their artistic media? Similarly, does the blessing of unfettered self-exploration stand beside the risk of self-involvement...