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Colin Powell has clearly gone to school on Dwight Eisenhower. The comparison here is between two politicians, not two generals. All during the late 1940s and early 1950s, the nation wondered whether Ike would seek the White House--as a Democrat or Republican didn't matter. Ike professed no interest but stealthily fed the boomlet, as recounted by his biographer Stephen Ambrose, who also happens to be a key cog in the draft-Powell movement. "To be a successful candidate," Ambrose has written, Ike "had to appear not to be a candidate. His speeches had to be forceful without being...
...Governor's comparison was particularly galling to those who opposed Fried during the nomination process...
...lives with "the fantasy lives we see on television," Nesse writes in the recent book Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine, written with the eminent evolutionary biologist George Williams. "Our own wives and husbands, fathers and mothers, sons and daughters can seem profoundly inadequate by comparison. So we are dissatisfied with them and even more dissatisfied with ourselves." (And, apparently, with our standard of living. During the 1950s, various American cities saw theft rates jump in the particular years that broadcast television was introduced...
...always predictable. Consider Judit Polgar, who at 15 became the world's youngest chess grand master. Her success does not mean she has a male-wired brain. Nor did Shakespeare, whose intuitions about women were uncanny, necessarily have female wiring. The variation between the sexes pales in comparison with individual differences-and shows how marvelously versatile a 3-lb. mass of nerve cells...
...salaries of University officials paled in comparison to those of the officers of the Harvard Management Company...