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Other polls have shown Bush losing security moms, NASCAR dads and plain ole Southern women--all groups that were tent poles in the coalition that re-elected the President. Voters cite a large stew of concerns, including gas prices and immigration. But political consultants say they find the sourness grounded in the war. "It's the only issue that matters," says a strategist working closely with the White House...
...judging movies. "There was no rater-training process," Jay Landers, a former member, tells Dick. "People were hired, they were put into the screening room, put into the rating chair and started rating films." Further, those who challenge the MPAA rating for a particular film are not allowed to cite movies with similar scenes that got a milder rating. "It's not like a legal proceeding where you can quote precedent," says Wayne Kramer, director of The Cooler. The legal equivalent to this strange rule would be that every plaintiff in a racial prejudice case before the Supreme Court...
Both books cite studies, surveys, statistics, along with some hair-raising anecdotes, on how a rising tide of dull, useless assignments is oppressing families and making kids hate learning. A few highlights from the books and my own investigation...
...although the most common reason to stay home for both groups was that they thought their homes would be safe, African-American respondents were almost three times as likely to cite lack of financial resources or a physical or medical condition as a reason for not evacuating...
...marker board Andrea used to home school their children, Rusty has drawn charts of her depressive episodes and hospital stays since 1999. He can cite studies in the American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology; he has read the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. His wife's major depressive episodes, he says, are described on page 356. His obligation to support her, he says, goes beyond their wedding vows. "She wasn't just my wife. She's my best friend. And my friend's in trouble...