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...says. "That certainly is not the case now. however, if the person came in here sagging, and they're a 32-inch waist and they're wearing 42-inch pants...if you have body piercing, you need to take those things out. You need to somewhat adhere to business paradigm...
Perhaps Bill Clinton is a new paradigm: the Chief Executive as hipster. (His idol, John Kennedy, was probably the first, but no one knew at the time how swinging Kennedy's private life actually was.) It will be interesting to see what happens in the presidential race of 2000. Will candidates advertise that they are as pure as the driven snow, or will they say, I've had some wild times, haven't you? Already, Governor Roy Romer of Colorado and Mike Bowers, a leading contender in the Republican primary for the Georgia governorship, have acknowledged affairs with longtime aides...
...such a shift may be less of a new paradigm than the old politics of personality. I suspect that if Newt Gingrich were in Bill Clinton's cowboy boots, the American public would be saying, Pack up your bags. Even today, Gary Hart, who was once Warren Beatty's presidential candidate, would probably not get the benefit of the doubt that Bill Clinton is receiving. There was something holier-than-thou about Hart that folks just didn't cotton to. Bill Clinton comes across as a struggling sinner and never implies that he's better than the people who voted...
...movement away from the reductionist philosophy of Western biomedicine which compartmentalized the body into separate systems. A greater emphasis was then placed on "new" more integrated views of the person, views that had been embraced by many alternative medical practitioners for millenia. A more holistic, interconnected medical paradigm, which led to the development of mind body medicine, was the result...
...important to note that the use of the term "alternative medicine" although the most popularly used designation, is problematic for two reasons. First, it carries overtones of Western cultural hegemony by labeling all therapies and treatments outside the Western paradigm "alternative." In fact, most of these "alternative" practices constitute official, mainstream medicine in many other countries. The WHO estimates that more than 80 percent of population in developing countries use alternative therapies as a standard, everyday from of medicine...