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...they do...Events are probably more important than rhetoric right now. The events will influence whether this becomes a close election or not. By events, I mean a second dip in the economy. Secondly, if the casualties persist. Another year of this. We had a worse month now than we did during the war. Some issues have to neutralize as well for the Democrats to win. If gay marriage becomes a salient issue, they can’t win, because you can’t win with arguments like that in the middle part of the country...
...mental disorders might not have made it to Harvard” ring hollow; perhaps it’s rather that college administrators, who ought to be the ones caring for and listening to students, instead want to explain away any dissonance between the realities of student experience and the persistently happy, fully-functioning normative individual by recourse to our determinate and inviolable “biology.” Sadness can be but is not always a result of “genetic vulnerability;” until Hyman, indeed, until Harvard College culture as a whole can avow sadness...
...judges and lawmakers have been doing it for decades. Sessions of Congress open with prayer, the Attorney General holds prayer meetings each morning in his office, the Supreme Court routinely asks that "God save the United States and this honorable court." All that seems required for such conduct to persist unchallenged is not to call attention...
This was something strange and new. Reading literature and having a damn good time had become quietly but decidedly uncoupled. And yet we think of this state of affairs as normal, and it has left us with a set of perverse biases that persist to this day. We have a high tolerance for boredom and difficulty. We praise rich, complex, lyrical prose, but we don't really appreciate the pleasures of a well-paced, gracefully structured plot. Or, worse, we appreciate them, but we are embarrassed about it. Somewhere along the line, we learned to associate the deliciousness...
...segments such as SUVs and MPVs and to hedge against downturns in other segments. Some are skeptical. Christopher Will, an analyst at Lehman Brothers in London, describes the Phaeton as a "mistake" and an "irrelevancy." Says Will: "The VW brand could become muddled if the quality issues persist or if VW launches more products that don't fit its core image." Certainly it's difficult to move upmarket when the perception is that quality is heading down, so fixing that issue must be Pischetsrieder's first task. Next he has to ensure that VW's move into luxury doesn...