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...unique experience to live in a society led by someone who is sincerely and deeply respected. One of the reasons I left the U.S. and moved here was because of my growing apprehension about the direction in which George W. Bush and his advisors were taking the country. By contrast, the longer I live here and the more I learn about Sheikh Zayed’s policies, the more I have grown to respect him. Not only did he prove to be a visionary leader in the development of the United Arab Emirates, he funded a wide range of humanitarian...
...appeal for Colorado farmers and ranchers, largely because he's one of them. His Republican rival, Peter Coors, went to Phillips Exeter Academy and Cornell University and grew up in a family that hobnobbed with the Reagans and Du Ponts. Salazar's family members, by contrast, have been Colorado farmers since the 1800s. He grew up on a remote ranch in the San Luis Valley--a place that did not get electricity until after he had gone away to school...
Bush needed to demonize Kerry to make him an unacceptable alternative. The strategy carried some risk: negative ads over the summer portrayed Kerry as such a ridiculous, windsurfing, flip-flopping fop that when the cartoon version of Kerry didn't show up for the debates, Bush suffered in contrast. It was a rare miscalculation by a politician who understands well the value of low expectations. But overall, Bush succeeded in making Kerry appear an litist emphatically defending moderation at a time when nothing less than passion would do. In Boston at their convention, the Democrats held a tasteful remembrance...
...best way to describe his approach to writing, he says, is by contrast. “There are many writers I know who get up every morning, who drink either their espresso like I do or maybe something more innocuous, and sit down at their desks and they’re not getting up until they’ve put down a few pages, but I’m very different,” he says. “I write only when I feel ready to write…and sometimes I’m not able...
History upends both arguments. Roosevelt, Reagan and Clinton all defeated incumbents during economic downturns. The first two won with plans considered radical—Roosevelt wanted to establish a social safety net, and Reagan wanted to dismantle it. Bill Clinton, by contrast, ended 12 years of Republican ascendancy by tacking to the middle on trade, welfare and crime...