Word: believingness
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I took a few copywriting jobs, for a department store and a radio station. Around that time I came across a book that changed my life. The book, The Magic of Believing by Claude Bristol, is still in print. If I hadn't read it, I don't think I...
On global warming, a president who has previously been warned by Republican insiders to bone up on policy issues when dealing with wayward senators will face an even tougher task. Having come into power believing this whole global warming thing was a left-wing conspiracy hatched while his family was...
Well, not overnight. Rock never really died--after the alternative-rock craze bottomed out in the late '90s, rap-rock hybrids like Limp Bizkit and Kid Rock as well as more straightforward rock bands like Creed have clicked with audiences and gone multiplatinum. And record-company executives, like anxious analysts...
Still, the election is a watershed. If Blair loses, it will be a spectacular upset. If he wins, he will be heading toward a historic first: two full terms of a Labour government and a run at a third. Blair doesn't want to look power-mad by talking about...
Some faculty critics allege that the “transparency” of the era, in the words of Abbe Professor of Economics Dale Jorgenson, placated Rosovsky’s opposition into believing that their views mattered when in fact they had no more power than they had before 1969...