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...reaction to the news that he was mentoring two cousins considering congressional races: "Mark and Max coming to you for advice? God help us." But he says there are some insights that only a Kennedy can offer another Kennedy, and chief among them is this: "Disabuse yourself of the notion that there's this machine out there that just kind of materializes when you say, 'Yes--go!' Growing up watching politics as my cousins and I did, you had this warped sense that that's all you needed to do. That was the way it was for my father...
...memorable, that it serves as the title for Ertegun?s gigantic memoir book: "What?d I Say." There was nothing revolutionary in the lyric, except its daring to be loose ("Hey, mama, doncha treat me wrong/ Come and love your daddy all night long," etc.). Nor was the notion of releasing a jazzy, largely instrumental number in two parts; the year before, Cozy Cole (whose drumming career had stretched from Jelly Roll Morton to Charlie Parker, and who had recorded a Leiber-Stoller number as "Hound Dog Special" in 1954) enjoyed a two-sided hit with "Topsy." What was unusual...
...reasoning, it seems, is yet another twist on the axiom that "bad news for Main Street is good news for Wall Street." That saw is predicated on the notion that bad economic news means the Fed is more likely to cut interest rates, cheering stocks and bonds alike with the prospect of cheaper money and stimulated corporate investment. And bad news there was - the Conference Board reported that consumer confidence fell in a July of stagnant stock prices and rising layoffs, and the National Association of Purchasing Managers said that manufacturing, in a coma for many months now, was still...
...helped solve many crimes, and in 1969 he began teaching courses on profiling for the FBI. Within a decade, agents who had taken his courses had migrated throughout the bureau, and by the early '80s, profiling had spread to some local police departments. But Teten says his fairly limited notion of profiling--identifying a criminal's personality traits by analyzing the nature of his crime--was expanded too quickly by police who didn't have much training in psychology. Teten thought of profiling as a tool primarily for murder investigations, but it was now being used even in robberies...
...constitution, events on the ground are pointing in the opposite direction. The idea that hard-eyed men who have faced each other over Kalashnikovs will put all this nastiness behind them as soon as the constitution is revised is growing more fantastical by the day. Even more so the notion that a band of guerrillas propelled to center stage solely by virtue of their implacable brandishing of arms (and who have already demonstrated a proclivity for ethnic cleansing) will suddenly become model citizens of a multiethnic democracy once they have the right to use their native language in public life...