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...Bluethmann adds that low-tech activities offer another "hidden" benefit: helping spouses and relatives who care for Alzheimer's patients. Often, caregivers describe the distress and frustration that result from watching a disease slowly rob them of their loved ones as unbearable. They say any reprieve is a godsend. In Newbury, as the group shuffled out after two hours of singing, I asked one man whether he had enjoyed himself. "I liked it very much," he responded. His wife gasped. "He said five words," she said, placing her hand tenderly on his arm, and peering hopefully into his eyes...
...vice-presidential pick was a breath of fresh air. Indeed, Sarah Palin’s greatest contribution to the campaign was her evident willingness to take up the Bush comedy mantle. Her incoherent strings of folksy wisdom fell into the laps of impressionists and writers like a godsend. A President Palin would have been everything President Bush was and then some—pregnant teenagers with crazy names! Hunting mishaps! Negligible foreign policy experience! And when American voters said “no” to McCain, they destroyed all remaining possibility of a President who would have hilarious chats...
...down mentality when it loses. Because John McCain's defeat seemed likely for weeks, the fighting began long before Election Day. Some Republicans believe that the old conservative message must be modernized. Others see a need to return to the conservatism of old. For many, Palin was a godsend, a true populist in the spirit of Ronald Reagan. For others, she was a nightmare. With no leader in sight, factions are maneuvering behind the scenes to assign blame and take control. "It's not going to be business as usual," says Richard Viguerie, a 75-year-old direct-mail wizard...
...than $5 million in contributions have been collected in the campaign; as of early August, Mahoney had raised more than $2.5 million and Rooney nearly $800,000. And now Republicans are invigorated by the idea of gaining back a rare congressional seat from Democrats this year. "This is a godsend for them," Robert Watson, a political science professor at Lynn University in Boca Raton, told TIME...
...remarkable start. Sony affiliates in 32 territories - including the U.S., the U.K., Australia, and largely Catholic nations like Brazil and the Philippines - have agreed to release their debut album. In an age of illegal downloading and music piracy, Sony is betting that the Priests are a financial godsend that should resonate with the world's 1.1 billion Catholics - and Raphael figures the devout might also be more likely to pay for music than steal...