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...ultimate "Blink" President, to use author Malcolm Gladwell's catchy term, and recent title, for instantaneous, subconscious decision making. The slogan on Gladwell's book jacket-"Don't Think-Blink!"-is a perfect mantra for an attention- deficit-disordered society, and an apt description of the electric jolt Bush has brought to politics and policy. It certainly was the subtext of the 2004 presidential campaign: Kerry's thinking seemed tortured, paralytic; Bush's blinking seemed strong and decisive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Blink Presidency | 2/20/2005 | See Source »

...despite making some spastic music in the past, only with this EP has he achieved something truly worthy of the moniker. Neon-green-tinted and jitter-inducing, the EP is like that oft-maligned beverage: the buzz fades quickly, but it may give you enough of a jolt to finally defeat Bowser --- or your Sea Change doldrums...

Author: By Eric L. Fritz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Music: Hell Yes; Beck | 2/18/2005 | See Source »

Saal predicted that the Daily Jolt will catch on at Harvard as it has at Brown...

Author: By Matthew S. Lebowitz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Online Campus Guide Debuts | 2/8/2005 | See Source »

Another section of the Daily Jolt is devoted to procrastination, made up of links to websites such as “Virtual Bubble Wrap” and “101 Ways to Annoy Your Roommate...

Author: By Matthew S. Lebowitz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Online Campus Guide Debuts | 2/8/2005 | See Source »

...Daily Jolt started at Amherst College several years ago and afterwards spread to 100 colleges and universities across the country. Bardin said he learned of the website through his frequent visits to Brown University, the second school to create a Daily Jolt website...

Author: By Matthew S. Lebowitz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Online Campus Guide Debuts | 2/8/2005 | See Source »

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