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...Huckabee, who is making gains among working-class conservatives, came to the same conclusion. "There's a lot of underlying [economic] anxiety," he told me. "People are working harder and not getting ahead. There is a disconnect between the insider establishment in the country - and in my party - and the middle class about this. There's a greater divide between the top and bottom than ever before. And worse, people on the bottom are not sure they can get out of the bottom. That's a recipe for real trouble. That's the stuff out of which revolutions are born...
...incites someone to threaten or dehumanize another is an endemic societal disaster; Columbia’s plan to branch out into a sensitive neighborhood is a limited point of contention for community discussion. Furthermore, the proposed alterations to university policy would rectify neither of these problems entirely. This puzzling disconnect between the strike’s causes and effects further undermined it. It may have been these issues of legitimacy that limited the strike’s success. Last Friday, the Coalition to Preserve Community, a Harlem community group that opposed Columbia’s expansion, asked the strikers...
...that's not to say the drugs aren't successful. "There's a disconnect between what medical practitioners seek and what patients seek," says Padwal. Obese patients might go to their doctor looking to lose 100 pounds or more - they want to look the way they looked in high school. But doctors usually have more modest goals, tempered by their patients' experience - and by concerns about health over vanity. By a doctor's standard, even a 5% to 10% reduction in body weight can make a big difference to a patient's health. On that level, at least, there...
...need of a rebound,” to Chuck Klosterman for ESPN the Magazine declaring, “the NBA is always in trouble,” the pessimism is widespread. Many problems have plagued the league, but the most commonly cited is a so-called disconnect between players and fans, which has led to dislike. As Klosterman puts it, most basketball players are “likely the tallest, richest, blackest person in almost any room in America, a nexus of physical, financial, and racial minorities. You have almost nothing in common with [them].” Yahoo! Sports...
...Golis is reluctant to overstate the conflict created by the differing occupations in his social circle, but admits feeling a certain disconnect when in conversation with some of his peers in the financial sector. “There are the people who get really excited about it and try to talk about it. They have a lingo, and everything. I don’t know where their enthusiasm comes from, because what they’re doing doesn’t seem to be particularly meaningful.” Mahan says, “I personally do feel called...