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Perhaps the most successful awareness campaign has been conducted by the Lyme Borreliosis Foundation. In 1988 Lyme disease was scarcely known even in the area around Lyme, Connecticut. Karen Forschner, who had the Lyme-disease symptom of a bull's-eye rash during pregnancy, started the foundation with her husband Tom shortly after the birth of their only child, a son who was finally diagnosed with the disease. "Using the media is definitely a part of our strategy," says Tom Forschner. The husband-and-wife team has captured the attention of all the daytime talk shows and most newspapers...
Theodore Roosevelt runs for office as the candidate of the Bull Moose Party after pledging not to seek a third presidential term...
...Roosevelt changed his mind. He ran for president on the Bull Moose party ticket and became the most successful third party candidate until--you guessed it--Rose Perot...
...despite the pretense, Gabriel's early solo songs were brilliant. "Humdrum" is set to accompany Gabriel's aesthetically pleasant, if vague, worldview: "As a bull, so a dove; as below, so above." His "Family Snapshot" painted a sympathetic musical picture of a Lee Harvey Oswald so tormented by his upbringing that he had to shoot a president...
Vidal has always been impossible to pigeonhole. He is ever the restless bull in the china shop of conventional wisdom. He is also a serious student of history. Jason Epstein, his old friend and longtime publisher, correctly calls Vidal "the last in a line of men of letters -- among whom Edmund Wilson is a classic example. Scholars like him are rare in any age, polymaths with a huge range of interests." Vidal can lampoon the New Testament because he knows the Bible and Roman history...