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It’s time lucky people joined candy, cake, and Christmas on the list of things that the young tend to prefer. According to psychologists at Harvard and Stanford, children between the ages of five and seven demonstrate a predilection for people who have seen their lives graced with good fortune as compared to those who have suffered from poor luck. Furthermore, this tendency is not limited to individuals, but rather, is applied to larger groups encompassing those individuals. This research may shed light on the origins of social prejudices. “Children prefer the lucky...
...Polka’] was fun. I wasn’t familiar with the choreography,” he says. “I’m having a lot of fun with that one. I prefer things that are more technical, but it’s nice to have a change. Diversity is always a good thing...
...Congress, this situation won't be that unusual. The title of Mayhew's book on this subject is Divided We Govern and that's become increasingly true. Twenty out of the last 30 years, the government has been divided. The conventional wisdom has always been that voters actually prefer having the wheels of power paralyzed so that politicians can't do anything too stupid. But maybe it's quite the opposite, and voters know exactly what they are doing...
...fact, the Sunnis may have the most to gain from partition. The Sunni insurgency feeds on popular hostility not just to the Americans but to a Shi'ite-dominated Iraqi government. Most Sunnis don't support al-Qaeda and its imitators, but they often prefer them to Iraqi security forces, which are seen as complicit in the killings of Sunnis. If the Sunnis were to establish their own region, they could have an army and provide for their own security. Since Iraq's known oil fields are in the Shi'ite south and the Kurdish north, the Sunnis do have...
...noticed a marked uptick in how much of the press secretary's briefing gets replayed on the nightly news and throughout cable since Snow took the job in April. "If he's not being quoted," says Bartlett, "then usually one of our critics are, so we'd prefer...