Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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President George Bush could build an awesome multilateral coalition for going to war with Saddam Hussein, but he didn?t know the price of milk. That was the story of the 1992 presidential campaign, in which Bill Clinton sold himself to America as a candidate focused exclusively on domestic policy...
This short synopsis cannot do justice to the work or the performance. We all know how the story must end--we would be foolish to suspect that More would give in. But the reason the audience can be so deeply moved in ways it doesn't completely understand is that the focus is not on political intrigue or what is right or wrong. We care because More is an honorable man in circumstances that are all too real. And the fact that he is the best of what we aspire to be makes his fate even more heartbreaking, even though...
...Before they know it, they're behind the eight ball in terms of credit card debt," he says. "That's what scary to me as a freshman proctor...
...there is a more subtle and scary element to these preferences: when you ask these otherwise intelligent and thoughtful people why they support these candidates, they freely admit it's because they know nothing about what these men think. It seems they want to keep it that way, revel in their ignorance, and therein make a political error greater than the decision of one executive to indulge his sexual appetites in the Oval Office...
...certainly a notable step toward a solution. "Nobody?s suggesting we genetically alter humans this way, but the better we understand the behavior of tumors, the more likely we are to find a cure," says Lemonick. "This could eventually lead to a very effective cancer treatment. We don?t know that it will, and we don?t know how it might, but it could be a very important piece of the larger puzzle...