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...leads is charged with fighting terrorism, drug trafficking, money laundering, people smuggling, identity theft, sexual servitude and child pornography. The A.F.P.'s first duty is to Australia, but on Keelty's watch it has also taken its intelligence-based approach abroad, helping police in other countries boost their skills, combat transnational crime, and keep the peace in trouble spots. Its sleuths may not be as visible as their high-profile boss, but they're out there: from Bogot? to Riyadh to Papua New Guinea, keeping an ear to the local bush telegraph and building high-tech information networks that span...
...salt foods gone? There are many of those new low-fat and low-carb foods, but I bet they contain more sodium to make up for a lack of taste. Nowadays everybody is expected to just take a prescription medication to solve blood-pressure problems. I want to combat hypertension through diet and exercise, not by taking pills. Listen up, marketers: low carb is out; no salt...
...change in direction, but Bush was betting that what they wanted more was leadership. Through it all, the one category in which he never fell behind John Kerry in the polls was being a strong leader. In dangerous times, courage is a currency, so while Kerry ran on his combat record, Bush, who didn't have one, suggested that the courage that matters most in a politician is the political kind. "The role of the President is not to follow the path of the latest polls," he told voters. "Whether you agree with me or not, you know where...
During the 2000 campaign, Bush never left home without a podium. To support the promise to "restore honor and dignity to the White House" and combat the notion that he was a lightweight, his team wanted to make him look presidential whenever possible. But four years later, with the re-election campaign under way, his imagemakers had the opposite worry. There was too much pomp, too many suits. They needed to get him out from behind the lectern and let him be a regular guy. So Bush went from set speeches to town-hall meetings, from suits to shirtsleeves...
Gullette is something of a one-woman social movement, working in the tradition of Michel Foucault and Simone de Beauvoir to raise awareness of the negative effects of modern culture, specifically its attitudes toward aging. Her previous books, Declining to Decline: Cultural Combat and the Politics of the Midlife and Safe at Last in the Middle Years: The Invention of the Midlife Progress Novel, both focus on popular misconceptions of aging...