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Rating the Runners-Up It is refreshing to see that track-and-field phenomenon Usain Bolt was chosen to be on the short list. The selection of a formidable athlete who has revolutionized the world of sports is a welcome change from the politicians and dignitaries who are usually recognized. Congratulations to Bolt for a fantastic year! Lisa Sloan, SUDBURY, MASS...
From the course description: “This course examines the phenomenon of ‘brainwashing’ as a modern set of techniques that can apparently force a subject to alter her beliefs radically against her will.” You know you’ve always wanted to know how to do it—well, how to do it effectively, that is. | Th. 2-4. Link...
Sociologists refer to the phenomenon of people marrying people who are like them as homogamy. Doctors don't marry nurses anymore. They marry other doctors. And the nurses? Well, let's just say they don't seem too keen these days on the orderlies...
...refreshing to see that track-and-field phenomenon Usain Bolt was chosen to be on the short list for Person of the Year [Dec. 28--Jan. 4]. The selection of a formidable athlete who has revolutionized the world of sports is a welcome change from the politicians and dignitaries who are usually recognized. Congratulations to Bolt for a fantastic year...
...picture presented in Game Change of Palin's emergence as national phenomenon - and the real Palin behind her public persona - is often startling and sometimes shocking. The scantness of the vetting she received before being placed on the Republican ticket. Her substantive deficiencies, even more dramatic than those that had previously been reported: her lack of understanding about why there are two Koreas, her ignorance about the function of the Federal Reserve, her belief that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11. The fact that, at her lowest moments during preparation for her debate against Joe Biden, some senior McCain aides...