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...prevalent in the months since his election. He now enjoys an 83 percent approval rating, 22 and 15 percentage points higher than his two immediate predecessors, George Bush and Bill Clinton, respectively. As throngs of supporters estimated at 1.8 million descended upon Washington, D.C. for the Second Coming (I count myself among their ranks), Obama as Messiah has reached a fever pitch...
...That, no doubt, is why even the most resolute dieters - both male and female - so often fail, eventually pouncing on the barbecued ribs. While that does nothing for your waistline or your cholesterol count, it may, briefly, mean more peace in your marriage. At least until the next diet begins...
...print of a heron on the sand, the feeling that a crow flew by, the sea shells lined up in an empty room on a woman's whim. Millions are touched by these intimations, faint but intense; they are touched in their sense of mortality, and they count Andrew Wyeth an incomparable painter...
...think the most telling fact of the campaign is that, of Obama, Clinton and McCain, only Obama ever gave an announcement speech to explain why he was running. That tells you more about why Obama won - and why the other two could never get on message - than any delegate count, campaign finance figure or exit poll number...
...Perhaps. But departing Bush officials shouldn't count their poulets before they've hatched. First off, Roquefort sales to the U.S. represent just 2% - or 400 tons - of the total Roguefort market. The 1998 World Trade Organization ruling that permits Washington to retaliate over the beef ban also limits that sanction to less than $116.8 million in annual European imports to the U.S. - not exactly a sum capable of forcing trade policy capitulation. And that original decision was undermined by a WTO revision last October, which accepted previously disputed scientific evidence from the E.U. on the health risks of hormone...