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Bush was clearly more comfortable answering questions from voters than he has ever been giving speeches, and the format energized him. He would stand in front of the microphone, his body slightly hunched and his arms bent as if he were a boxer waiting to slap down his opponent's best shot. He was able to show off his expertise on education policy and say things like "I've been a tort-reformin' Governor and I'll be a tort-reformin' President!" and hear applause in response. "I like this," he told an adviser...
Seeing my fellow students bent on I-banking at the conference helped me see that the deeper commitment, whatever it is, can be realized through a wide range of professions that engage individuals in different ways. The path is certainly not limited to medicine or investment firms, either. It's more challenging to wake up one morning and clearly envision your future life as a social entrepreneur, certain you will help families but uncertain how. That uncertainty, though unsettling, is also incredibly exciting and freeing...
...heaven, got no responses, even though I posted it on Abuzz, Xpertsite and Expertcentral. Queries to Knowpost on the number of states that do not have a death penalty (12 plus the District of Columbia) and the best sleeping position to avoid back pain (on your back with knees bent) got helpful replies within hours...
Indeed, if one were of the paranoid mind-set fomented by duck-and-cover cartoons and the Sid Davis oeuvre, one might believe that educators of a radical bent designed these films as reverse social engineering. They knew that kids would take dating dos as don'ts, and vice versa. Some children may never even have considered slouching until Posture Pals told them not to. Did the mental-hygiene cinema of the '50s create the hippies and druggies...
...time it was rumored that the Mafia had stolen their production materials from New York's Department of Motor Vehicles, but that quality certainly didn't show in the final product. The ID obtained by FM was accurate visually, but when bent, showed crease marks. A real New York license bounces back to its original shape unharmed like a real New Yorker...