Word: artes
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Forget "Honest" Abe Lincoln ?- or the get-tough policies of Ronald Reagan ?- the art of winning American elections today is all about pleasing all of the people all of the time (or at least pretending that you can). Call it the "radical center," the "New Middle" or the "Third Way," this is the mushy political space in which New Democrat meets Compassionate Conservative. Of course, if you?re of more cynical mien, you may be tempted to call it plain old sophistry. But there?s no denying that electronic-age politicians such as Bill Clinton and George W. Bush have...
...help pin down these policy-averse politicians populating the worldwide muddle of the middle, TIME Daily has developed six non-mutually exclusive archetypes to which every middle-grounder worth his or her salt will strive to conform ?- and then matched them with some of the politicians practicing the centrist art today...
...instead probing the seams of religious and patriotic sentiment for a message that will deliver the electoral mother lode. Throw a stick in New Hampshire in February and you?ll hit at least five would-be Healers. Ross Perot is a failed Healer. As Bill Clinton proved, the true art of playing the Healer is convincing voters that you feel their pain...
...policies of both ends of the political spectrum while avoiding those dimensions that might annoy voters. His experience leading the Senate made Bob Dole the consummate Difference-Splitter, but he failed to package that skill correctly. The challenge is to find compelling new slogans for the age-old political art of compromise. To catch fire, Difference-Splitters need to put words like "New" in front of "Democrat" and "Compassionate" in front of "Conservative" and then get everyone humming their tune...
...longtime supporters of the Fogg Museum, George S. Abrams '54 and his wife Maida Abrams, have donated a $20 million art collection to the University, museum officials announced this week...