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Each came out of Iowa with a calling card to show voters why Bush should fear them most. But the early contests have a habit of turning success into a cautionary tale. Dean's passion both raised him up and slowed him down. He brought new voters into the process, but nearly half proceeded to vote for someone else. Dean's performance made it safe for Kerry to be dull, which may, down the road, make Kerry just as unappealing to voters as he was when he was at 5%. Edwards' optimism and empathy open him to the charge that...
...last week, President Bush hailed the passage of the Medicare bill that will give seniors "the modern medicine they deserve" and touted the new drug-discount card that the Administration says will save them 10% to 25% on pharmaceuticals. The even larger Canadian discounts, meanwhile, have attracted a popular passion that is shared by politicians on both sides of the aisle. G.O.P. Congressman Dan Burton--who represents Indiana, where drug giant Eli Lilly employs thousands of voters--has accused the industry of "raping the American people." In the Democratic presidential debate last week, Senator Joe Lieberman described the trend toward...
...those who don't have advantages." The emotional heart of the speech, though, is Clark's dismay over the Bush Administration's misuse of "the precious lives of our men and women in uniform" in Iraq--and that is where he will often run into problems. At times, his passion spills over into an almost Deanian imprudence. At a Texas fund raiser last week, Clark thundered, "We're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest Administration in living memory. They even put Richard Nixon to shame. They are a threat to what this nation stands...
...what people are interested in." That seems myopic. The Edwards ascendancy has been stunted by the Senator's youthful appearance--he could use the opposite of Botox--and there is no more painless way to inject gravitox into a campaign than to speak with knowledge and controlled passion about foreign policy issues...
Girl with a Pearl Earring, which concerns the Vermeer portrait of a delicate young woman with an intense gaze, was all sublimated passion and quiet decorum. The Lady and the Unicorn centers on the series of tapestries that today hang in Paris' Musee National du Moyen Age depicting a woman's seduction of a unicorn. Not surprisingly, the proceedings are more overtly carnal. The story begins in 1490 when the painter Nicolas des Innocents, whose appetites pointedly contradict his name, is commissioned by the wealthy Parisian Jean Le Viste to design six tapestries glorifying the nobleman's status at court...