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...victory may be what saves Rove from himself. There are the now famous nicknames Bush has for Rove (Boy Genius on good days, Turd Blossom on others), and there is the evident pleasure the President seems to take in putting Rove in his place. "Thank you for that brilliant idea," Bush will say mockingly when Rove is rambling on. And Bush seems to know when not to listen to his political adviser. It was Rove who argued in the summer of 2000 against picking Dick Cheney as Bush's running mate, citing Cheney's multiple heart attacks and lack...
Harry Harlow is probably the most famous psychologist you've never heard of. Back in the 1960s, his work was widely covered in the press--and with good reason. Through a series of brilliant experiments, Harlow proved that love, despite what most of his colleagues believed, plays a crucial role in mental well-being. The idea that such a thing needed proving in the first place seems bizarre today. But as Deborah Blum explains in Love at Goon Park (Perseus; 336 pages), her thorough and beautifully written biography of Harlow, it made perfect sense in the context...
...nature vs. nurture: back in the '50s, when I worked with Lenny Bruce, he used to tell this story: An infant child born to a pair of brilliant astrophysicists gets lost in the woods. Raised by a pack of wild dogs, he finds his way back to civilization years later and goes on to graduate with honors from M.I.T. But a year after that, he gets killed chasing a car. ORSON BEAN Venice, Calif...
...chants from Penn were loud, obnoxious, coordinated and often timely. “You have two points” was brilliant and, for far too much of the game, appropriate...
...lines to help put out fires and to salute the soldiers who manned the ancient Green Goddess trucks. When the government said that in the event of a second strike, it would order soldiers to break through picket lines and seize new red fire engines, Gilchrist's response was brilliant p.r.: Take 'em, they're yours. "He was conciliatory, smart and seemed reasonable compared with the government's tough-talking line," says John Kelly, professor of industrial relations at the London School of Economics. But the real test of Gilchrist's political smarts will be whether he knows...