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...immigration policies), using the media to mold his reputation as a 'ubiquitous action hero of Gotham,' and employing an utter ruthlessness in discrediting and attacking his opponents. If he does dominate at the polls in November, his strategy will become the definitive play book on how a Republican can conquer an urban, racially-diverse, Democratic stronghold...
...computer commercials. Type buddhism into the search engine of amazon.com the Internet bookstore, and it spits back 1,200 titles, from scriptures to modern inspirational writings to a robust selection of cookbooks. And then there is Hollywood, where more and more people seem torn between a sincere desire to conquer ego and the drive to be seen doing...
...course of history: Karl Marx's Das Kapital, Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species and Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations come to mind. And then there was Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. Published in 1962, it embedded a message about the folly of trying to conquer nature within an exposition about the dangers of pesticides to animal and human life. Despite the formidable opposition of the chemical industry, which ridiculed Carson as an overly emotional woman unqualified to judge the health effects of compounds like DDT, her thorough research and exquisite ability to turn dry science into...
Feeling the mental boost resulting from these two victories, the Crimson believes that it found the magic-and spirit-needed to conquer its Ivy League foes this weekend...
With a positive attitude, Harvard feels ready to conquer Yale. Hopefully the flood gates will open this weekend, and the team will finally squelch this scoring drought. HARVARD...