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...someone who understood the dark side of politics, Reed would say approvingly, "He gets the joke." It's what drew political reporters to Reed: we appreciated him in the same way we do James Carville and Harold Ickes on the Democratic side, or Lee Atwater and the reigning master, Karl Rove, on the Republican side. They're crass, sometimes ruthless and occasionally willing to stretch or even break a principle in order to win. Their redeeming quality is that most of them know they don't have what it takes to be the candidates themselves. And that might have been...
...absurdity—fashion has been absurd for the entirety of documented human history—but that, on a biological scale, these standards of aesthetics are, objectively and cross-culturally, unattractive. If you’re into extremely convoluted academic essays full of big words and citations, add Karl Grammar’s essay “Darwinian Aesthetics: Sexual Selection and the Biology of Beauty” to your summer reading list. He discusses how we evolved to think that fertility and health are sexy. Sexual selection in a nutshell: If people did not think that attributes linked...
Outed CIA agent Valerie Plame says Dick Cheney ruined her career--and she wants him to pay. Plame and her husband Joseph Wilson filed suit last week against the Veep, Karl Rove, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby and other officials. Here's our brief...
...Having Karl Rove write aboutlessons from the career of Roosevelt was an insult to one of our greatest Presidents. If Rove had been working for one of T.R.'s opponents, he would have slapped together a band of Spanish-American War Veterans for Truth and suggested that Teddy had been sipping Cuba libres on a gunboat instead of leading the charge up San Juan Heights. WILLIAM G. SCHELLER Waterville...
...Filed yesterday with the U.S. District Court in Washington, the complaint accuses Vice President Dick Cheney, former top aide I. Lewis ?Scooter? Libby, and presidential adviser Karl Rove of violating the couple?s rights to free speech, privacy and equal protection by conspiring to reveal Plame?s CIA identity, ostensibly in revenge for Wilson?s criticisms of the reasons for the Iraq war. The filing came on the same day that Robert Novak, whose syndicated column first reported that Plame was with the CIA, revealed that Rove was one of his sources for the information...