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...President hastily bailed out of the Middle East peace talks to forestall video of Hillary spending her first night alone. The next morning, in their end-of-driveway press conference, the First Lady made like a young bride, ecstatic to be unpacking gewgaws from Arkansas circa 1983. This helped fend off thoughts about her as a carpetbagger in need of a new zip code, or worse, as the first First Lady to abdicate. For the moment, the Clintons diverted attention from the fact that they are the first presidential couple to officially take up separate residences and that this most...
...understand the attitude. The conventions of the TV talk show, circa 1999, inflate the trivial and trivialize the important. Watching Hardball's Chris Matthews bark at his guests about tax plans and sex scandals, you wonder why his guests don't cover themselves with dentist's smocks to fend off the flying spittle. Kinsley recalls that as co-host of Crossfire, the CNN shoutfest, he once disagreed with a guest in too civil a tone. "No, no!" the producer shouted into his earpiece...
...wish I could offer George W. Bush some advice about how to fend off efforts to portray him as a dimwit, but even Dan Quayle rejected the only slogan I came up with when he had a similar problem: "Definitely Not the Dumbest Guy in the Deke House." Political pundits are warning us that the public is in danger of seeing all the presidential candidates as caricatures--McCain as a hothead, for instance, and Gore as a manlike object and Forbes as a terminal dork. Just who might be responsible for leaving the voters with these impressions...
...against products such as Monsanto's modified seeds, which are at the heart of the company's agribusiness. Those inklings of dissent were enough, apparently, to make up executives' minds: They would complete a merger and quickly cut the agribusiness free from the rest of the company, letting it fend for itself. That amputation, execs hope, will leave Monsanto and Pharmacia & Upjohn's pharmaceuticals division to take the market by storm - unhindered by bad publicity...
...under control, but also to an underutilized treatment known as psychosocial rehabilitation. This approach aims to remedy what many see as a great failing of America's treatment of the mentally ill--once they are stabilized with drugs and released from the hospital, they are too often left to fend for themselves, with no one to counsel them, monitor their progress or help them find work. That has led to much private suffering but also to some public tragedy, as in the case of Andrew Goldstein, a New York City man suffering from schizophrenia who pushed a woman...