Word: oprahism
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...Shelbyville was the recipient of an odd sort of national attention last spring as both TIME and the Oprah Winfrey Show used the town and its high dropout rate as a vehicle for discussing the larger national crisis - around 30% of all students around the country drop out. Shelbyville was picked not because it had higher rates than everywhere else, but because it was one of the few districts that was actually talking about the problem and trying to do something...
...role in his domestic policy, while Susan Rice, a former Clinton State Department official, has been advising him on foreign policy. And perhaps the most important of his African-American supporters is a woman who goes to his church in Chicago and who has praised him publicly - Oprah Winfrey...
...What to infer from these rankings? That Americans will pay to see Will Ferrell (Talladega Nights) or Adam Sandler (Click) or Ben Stiller (Night at the Museum) in a certain kind of comedy - and Cruise can get their attention by testing the tensile strength of Oprah's couch - but somehow these guys don't fit the image of movie star. The Harris poll suggests the yen for a platonic ideal: the humane man (Washington, Hanks, Smith), or the tough hombre (Wayne, Eastwood, Gibson, Ford), or the matinee idol (Depp, Clooney) or the pretty woman (Roberts). These are not just people...
...Shawn hasn't told them yet what happened with Devlin to leave him so scared, but both said they suspect he may have been abused, a gut feeling they first shared in an interview with Oprah Winfrey that aired yesterday. But Craig Akers said yesterday his suspicion was not based on anything Shawn has said or done since he has been back home. "There was nothing to make me think that other than statistics," he told TIME. "Since Shawn disappeared, we have been helping out other families with missing kids. We've been involved in more than 40 missing persons...
...that front (he recently attracted the help of ex-Kerry '04 national finance director Lou Susman, known as "the Hoover"), whereas those lesser candidates will be looking to make the most of what's called "free media" - that is, publicity stunts. I understand there's a slot on Oprah's schedule that's free...