Word: politicalization
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No one really believes such a practiced sound bite, least of all the skaters themselves. But Tonya Harding is not -- nor has she ever been -- like most skaters. She is neither politic nor polished, sociable nor sophisticated. Instead, she is the bead of raw sweat in a field of dainty...
Only the government could think of obesity as a new entitlement. Doesn't anyone stop to think what the creation of another aggrieved group will mean to the already bursting-at-the-seams body politic? Or did anyone fast-forward to the prospect of adjudicating whether a person is fat...
Does the body politic of the United States still lounge in the days of Boss Tweed? How strange that the Republicans in New Jersey have not leveled parallel charges of pay-off practices at the defeated Democrats! Stranger still, that so many other elections went off without a hitch in...
Certainly we cannot be enraptured by Kennedy's accomplishments. In fact, many of the major policy initiatives attributed to Kennedy were not actually carried out until after his death. Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, who preceded Kennedy by only 15 years, was president for over three times as long; he presided...
But debate, discussion and deliberation are functions internal to the administration, the brain of the body politic. Simply to have thought of something does not amount to having done it. This sort of cogitation lacks any real value, political or practical--its value is merely contingent on some prospect of...