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...among Democrats and Republicans last week was that Kerry had gone with his strongest choice. But Edwards is not without his vulnerabilities. As the Kerry campaign played up Edwards' stint on the Senate Intelligence Committee, his foreign trips and his sessions with world leaders, Republicans moved in quickly to portray him as little more than a pretty face who is still at heart a slick, millionaire trial lawyer. At one point a few weeks ago, even Kerry's stepson Chris Heinz had ventured, "We may need someone with stronger credentials on foreign policy." Bush, campaigning in Edwards' state, compared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside The Decision: The Gleam Team | 7/19/2004 | See Source »

...impossible to discuss with anyone outside the field. Perhaps academia itself, especially when it has no immediate application or use to society, is uninteresting and difficult to talk about. Still, science seems to suffer from an unusual silence, thanks in large part to cultural norms that portray scientific research as absurdly dorky, hopelessly technical and often fruitless to society...

Author: By Matthew S. Meisel, | Title: Acids, Bases and Silence | 7/9/2004 | See Source »

...beginning he said he wasn’t going to be one of those presidents who spent his time agonizing over how The Crimson was going to portray him and I think the converse has shown to be the case,” Chadbourne says. “I think he’s just trying to focus attention towards the hard work and the noble aims of himself and the council members...

Author: By Joshua D. Gottlieb, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mahan Leads Council To Success, Discord | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

...work in the manner of a debater with a brilliant speech who's just heard the one-minute bell - a legacy, perhaps, of being booed and heckled at conferences. In a country where adults can have liposuction, facial cosmetic surgery and penis and breast enlargements, he says, health authorities portray whole-body scanning as "some nefarious activity undertaken by grubby business people . . . charlatans who advertise." The facts, Freilich says, are that since August '02 he's analyzed the scans of more than 5,000 people. One in 20 had abnormalities needing "immediate follow-up," including more than 100 cancers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Lies Within | 6/1/2004 | See Source »

...determine your future—your career, your lifetime friends, even where you’ll live and work after college”—a low-key message indeed. College admissions camps simply exploit the fears of anxious parents and overachieving students to line their pockets. They portray the college admissions process as a ridiculous, high-stakes game whose solutions only they can provide—and for a preposterous...

Author: By Hersh Sagreiya, | Title: Summer Fun at Admissions Camp | 5/12/2004 | See Source »

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