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...remove himself from the realm of public policy and reenter the sphere of politics that won him the presidency. He should reframe how he pitches the health-care law and correct the myriad misconceptions about the government’s handling of the financial crisis. Obama can learn a lesson from his candidate self; it was that Obama, after all, who, despite his paucity of qualifications, won the presidency with shrewd political positioning and image promotion. President Obama must rediscover his political acumen soon for the sake of his party. Otherwise, his successes will be for naught, as his governing...
...come as a shock to the industry; it's not like it happened overnight. There is no racial majority in the nation's 10 biggest cities, married couples account for less than half of households, and customers of every age and clime are increasingly unpredictable. This was a hard lesson for the restaurant business, which assumed customers would fit into certain broad categories: harried homemakers, say, or squeamish Midwesterners who would recoil at the sight of a whole fish. (To this day, the nation's hamburger chains believe that a trace of pink will terrify customers, a fact that accounts...
Dining, to be fair, is getting the bad news late. The TV networks learned their lesson the hard way in the late '60s, when they found that once omnipotent stars like Lucille Ball, Dean Martin and Jackie Gleason no longer commanded the attention of a universal audience. They came up with all kinds of solutions - ensemble sitcoms with census-like casting, anthology shows that could shoehorn three stories on one Love Boat trip, spin-offs of spin-offs - but there were no more Lucy's or Dino's, that much was clear. (See the 100 best TV shows...
...heading into another geek group with Clash - the zealot Greek-mythology clan. Are you ready for the purist storm? Ours isn't a history lesson. We set out to make a fun roller-coaster kind of ride. If we were really doing it for the history buffs, Perseus would be naked. I don't think anyone would want to see me like that...
...AIDS is not in recession! Teach Kerry a lesson!” shouted the group of activists as they circled the square in front of the office, shaking the three-by-six and a half foot check in time with their chant...