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Evolutionary psychologist David Buss, a professor at the University of Texas in Austin, has pondered the sociobiological logic of forgiveness and concluded that at least in the realm of mating, men and women may be programmed to employ it differently. Males, he suggests, are less likely to forgive a fling because if the woman becomes pregnant, "a man doesn't want to be investing resources in other men's children." In contrast, a woman may be more forgiving of a man's one-time infidelity (assuming that he has already given her a child) but less forgiving of a long...
...anything else, George W. is working hard to signal that he's his own man. This is a neat trick in a family and country that value loyalty but worship winners. Which is why just about every time the Governor sits down with a group of pilgrims to Austin, he makes an important safety announcement. "This is not going to be George H.W. Bush, Part 2," he says. "It's going to be George W. Bush, Part...
...fact, George W.'s Rolodex isn't that different from his dad's. It's getting hard to keep count of all the veterans of the old Bush Administration who are now house-hunting in west Austin. But what's most striking about the selection the Governor has made from his father's staff is how shrewdly he has chosen. In nearly every case, Bush has tapped the young and the restless, the men and women who were most frustrated with President Bush's do-nothing approach to domestic policy. In the Bush White House, they were known...
...cutting supply sider, but he spent his time at the Federal Reserve fighting inner-city red lining by major banks. Al Hubbard, a onetime deputy chief of staff to Dan Quayle, pushed for massive deregulation of business during the 1990 recession and now squires kindred spirits to Austin. Fred Steeper, the Republican pollster with the best fingertip feel for independents, is likely to be back for his third George W. campaign, even though, Steeper says, Bush never had him take a poll during his first four years in office because, "he likes to do what he thinks is right...
Where the shuttles dwell: 175 North Harvard St. in Harvard's Austin Campus, just past the stadium and a stone's throw from the mechanic. Can you get there by shuttle...