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First, we can make no reasoned conjecture about the frequency, or even the existence, of life elsewhere in the universe. As an optimist by temperament and as a betting man, I allow that certain features of the natural world would lead me to place my chips on yes if someone forced me to wager. But I also know the difference between a pure flutter based on hope and a smart play based on genuine probabilities...
Although Clinton often mentioned that India has many of the world's poor, he rarely saw them. So sanitized was the President's view that many Indians wondered whether he was too optimistic in his assessment of India's potential for progress and, by extension, for the prospect of improved Indo-U.S. relations. But Clinton has always been an optimist. What better trait for someone who wants to be a peacemaker...
...just as confident that he is right for the presidency--that he is someone who possesses the mystical capacity to set a clear agenda and persuade others to follow it. It is in this respect that Bush most sees himself to be like Ronald Reagan: an optimist with a simple set of goals and the charm to sell...
...loss in New Hampshire. "Either it was over before it began because I was never going to win there," Bush mused, "or it was over [in October] when I missed that debate." (He skipped it to attend a ceremony honoring his wife.) True to his reputation as an optimist, Bush claimed the loss did him good. "It's not a bad thing that I got knocked on my [backside]," he said. "I think it's important for people to see me stand up and dust myself off and fight. People want to see that I can win this thing myself...
...purchasing back her master tapes and finishing the album on her own terms, Mann has emerged with a stronger, more fiercely independent voice. In one of the album's highlights, co-written by Elvis Costello, Mann casts herself as the protagonist in "The Fall of the World's Own Optimist." She tracks her descent from innocence to her current perception of reality, where there's no point overriding objections, because that's "flogging the horse/When the horseman has up and died...