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...looking for help sounding out "E-I-E-I-O" b) trying to win voters for George P. c) having the hardest workday of his term d) reading from The Hungry Caterpillar...
...apologies. "You can't compete with a despot on a soapbox," he notes. "The best thing is to make him ludicrous." And now he may be seeing more of himself in the wacky show-biz satire he wrote more than 30 years ago. "It's the story of a caterpillar who becomes a butterfly--that's Leo Bloom," says Brooks. "And that's me. A little kid from Brooklyn who finally made it across the vast East River to Manhattan, to Broadway. That's a journey that is as great as from the Alleghenies to the Rockies." You made...
Some people look south of the Yucatan and see poverty and underdevelopment. Robert Petterson sees roads and bridges to be built and land to be cleared for modern housing and industry--all with the yellow earthmovers and other heavy equipment made by Caterpillar, based in Peoria, Ill. A quarter of the firm's $21.2 billion annual revenues comes from exports, but not enough of it from Latin America, thanks in part to tariffs that can reach 30%. Create a giant free-trade zone in the hemisphere, says Petterson, a Caterpillar vice president, and "we calculate that industrywide, over 10 years...
...number are the parents who have made it through their toddler's years on just one copy of Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Dream Snow has similar ingredients: a simple story, lively collage-like illustrations and a fun gimmick for little hands: the animals are hidden under a blanket of snow that can be lifted off. And at the end of the book is a wee Christmassy surprise, just enough to be cute rather than cloying...
Granted, the Republican presidential candidate is no intellectual superstar. One of his favorite books is the children's classic The Very Hungry Caterpillar, while Al Gore opts for The Red and the Black, a 19th century page-turner by the French author Henri Stendhal. But let's be honest here--who reads Stendhal, really? (Aside from the Paris-bound Alec Baldwin, perhaps.) The fact is, people of average intelligence often make excellent presidents (Truman, Reagan, even FDR) while brilliant chief executives like Hoover, Nixon, Carter and Clinton tend to trip over their own feet. Intellectual snobbery is all well...