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...successful deployment of political celebrity. The baby boomer pundit consensus by the end of the evening: The Democrats had made a solid, forceful argument that the American people should vote for their ticket...
...define political power as the ability to keep the party members who actually believe in something besides winning elections chained in the basement - as W. did so masterfully two weeks ago - but those are the facts today. That too was the consensus among last night's panels of TV pundits, with the usual exception of presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, whose designated role is to point out how badly the country's gone into the crapper since there was a Roosevelt in the White House. "I've always thought the Democratic party overestimated the problems that liberals would have reaching...
PARIS--In eighth grade Mr. Hendershot asked our social studies class if we thought there was such a thing as an American culture. The consensus: no. Americans had jeans, Hollywood and fast food. We had image. The French, the people who have 246 different kinds of cheese and are responsible for the words laissez-faire, joie de vivre and restaurant, had culture. Now, I laugh at my innocent naivete. American culture is stronger than Microsoft stock pre anti-trust ruling. I know because I tried...
...Gore,' Peter Hart, a Democratic pollster, says. 'Voters will open their windows and say, 'I'm willing to look again, and I'm willing to listen again.' '" But the window, she closes soon after. WSJ lays out the choices with a weekend wrap-up, and this about "consensus choice" Kerry: "But being viewed as the safe choice mightn't be helpful since Mr. Gore is under pressure to generate excitement." Guess there's no hope...
Inside the neurogeneticists' community there is more argument than consensus over the genes involved in mental health. Diagnosis of psychiatric illness is notoriously subjective and genetic heterogeneity is the rule, not the exception, even when diagnosis is more certain. In order to trace inheritance patterns neuroscientists focus on a genetic isolate population whose members suffer from a disorder with unusually high frequency. My lab's investigation of BPAD used a genetic isolate from the Old Order Amish in Lancaster County, Penn. Not only were we able to find several families with expression rates of BPAD as high as 20 percent...