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After a week of gut-wound assaults on his character, Kerry finally fired back on Thursday night, assailing Bush and Cheney for having avoided service in Vietnam and for having "misled" us into Iraq. The latter may be an exaggeration, but after the G.O.P. assault, Kerry has a right to exaggerate with impunity. Indeed, if he hopes to win, Kerry will have to do much more of that. He will have to become a version of the young John Kerry not celebrated at the Democratic Convention--the eloquent, passionate, uncoached leader of Vietnam Veterans Against the War who caused...
Bush is the first to say "I'm not a textbook player. I'm a gut player." While he reads history like a user's manual--he has finished Ron Chernow's biography of Alexander Hamilton and is now on to one about Charles Lindbergh--Bush typically seems less curious about people's arguments than their motives for making them. That has its drawbacks. When the French warned about the potential hazards of occupying an Arab country--lessons learned from their colonial history--Bush's focus on their motives for avoiding war left little room for consideration of their arguments...
...living correctly instead of well. She first fought against recipes that called for the culinary ease of prepackaged powdered soup and then the dietary benefits of defatted cheese. "Fake food--I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut--is unnatural, almost immoral, a bane to good eating and good cooking," she said. "I just hate health food...
...Brin and Page won't offer much in the way of assurances because they haven't a clue about what the future holds. That might not be what Wall Street wants to hear, but the founders don?t seem to care. They?d rather mint money by trusting their gut. So far, so good: they?ve made billions, retained control of their company, and kept the investment bankers at bay. If it seemed impossible, that?s because, well, it pretty much is (so you folks at home don?t be thinking about trying it). But for Brin and Page...
...Devine has become the face of the campaign on the cable shout shows. But Kerry campaign insiders say it is the third and quietest partner, Mike Donilon, who has the most day-to-day impact on Kerry and his message. Says an adviser: "If Kerry wants a real gut check on something--a feel for where things are going--he calls Donilon...