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There's unpopular, there's widely loathed, there's despised, and then there's John Edwards. Americans are a tolerant people, but they have a line, and evidently when you cheat on your cancer-stricken wife, lie about it to everyone while running for President and then decline to acknowledge fathering a love child for two years, you've crossed it. Given the towering stack of strikes against him, can Edwards resume any kind of public life? Short of curing his wife's cancer, is there anything he could do to get people to at least tolerate...
...were John Edwards, I'd try to concentrate all the bad news at once," says Tim Calkins, a marketing professor at Kellogg School of Management. "Get it out of the way. And then focus on replacing it with good news." When Tiger Woods starts to play good golf, his transgressions will fade from memory. Unlike Woods, however, Edwards doesn't have any public venues he can easily hop back into...
...thought that John Nash’s mind was beautiful until I painted...
When Michigan's lieutenant governor, John Cherry, announced earlier this month that he wouldn't seek the state's top elected post, Democrats here and across the country sighed in relief. Though Cherry was the ostensible front runner to succeed Jennifer Granholm, a fellow Democrat, he couldn't muster enough interest, or money, to wage a credible campaign. Cherry's departure effectively opens what's expected to be a fierce primary battle between two ambitious, business-minded Democrats for the task of keeping Michigan's governor's seat in the party's hands...
...often happens with this court, the case at hand became the occasion for a clash of worldviews. (For Justices Anthony Kennedy and John Paul Stevens, the dueling authors of the main opinions, these clashes have become so predictable and so dramatized, they should think about starting a cable-TV show.) "The right of citizens to inquire, to hear, to speak and to use information to reach consensus is a precondition to enlightened self-government and a necessary means to protect it," trumpeted Kennedy. Stevens responded, "The court's ruling threatens to undermine the integrity of elected institutions across the nation...