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Guinier, who spoke extemporaneously, used the metaphor of “the miner’s canary,” discussed in her recent book by the same name, to describe the black experience in America. Coal miners used to bring the songbird into the mines to measure the level of toxicity in the atmosphere. The failure of a canary’s fragile respiratory system signaled danger to the miners...
...wait a minute. Let's go back to Frum's anecdote; a metaphor may lurk within. Frum doesn't say what the speech was about, and he doesn't specify what Bush cut from the text--this is only a tell-some memoir. But one can assume that Bush has cut the details of the policy. And that fits too: there has been a vaporous quality to Bush's boldness. He traffics in headlines. The policies themselves are often not entirely baked. A case in point: Frum's "axis of evil" and its accompanying doctrine of pre-emption, which Bush...
...recurring strains of this year's mix (to finally kill the metaphor) was a gloomy tune from 2001, remixed several different ways. This time last year, we were still asking if and how 9/11 would change pop culture. In 2002 we got some answers. Defying warnings of tragedy fatigue, books about 9/11 (Bush at War, Let's Roll, The Cell) dominated the best-seller lists. CBS drew some 39 million viewers for 9/11, a tear-jerking documentary shot inside the World Trade Center on the day of the attacks. All broadcast and many cable networks tossed out their normal programming...
...Virgin Update: Kim S. Kilpatrick ’05 finally popped her cherry, lubricated by about a quart of Everclear punch. God, how we wish that was only a metaphor...
...make Elian Gonzalez a permanent U.S. resident, and he quit talking about the environment when pollsters and consultants told him it could hurt him. Each week seemed to bring a new policy pronouncement, another gimmick to jump-start the campaign, which is why even his evolving wardrobe became a metaphor for a man who had no idea what he stood for. "I sometimes made the mistake of putting too much emphasis on tactics," Gore says. "As I look back on the campaign, I remember too many times when I was in a car or an airplane...