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...thing above all others -- leadership of clear purpose, candidly proclaimed -- Perot seems a welcome breath of fresh air. With the penetrating clarity common to the slightly deranged, and with an air of bustling purposiveness, Perot has about him a kind of gravitas that appears to transmute political banalities into profound insights. Hear his practiced homilies during the presidential debates, watch his chart-filled infomercials, and Perot's classic American optimism is instantly recognizable. Everything will be fine, he says, if we roll up our sleeves and get under the hood...
...challenge to corporate law is important. Corporate lawyers must devise constraints needed to temper the excesses of rampant capitalism, a task of profound public service. Corporate lawyers, for example, perform most of the pro bono work in this country...
...normally acknowledge leaks by citing "unnamed sources" or "officials who refused to be identified." The readers seldom consider the reason that this unnamed official consented to be interviewed. Government officials do not talk to the press off-the-record out of the goodness of their hearts or from a profound respect for the democratic process. Instead, officials leak information because it is in their interest to have a certain message broadcast by the media...
Recent polls have boosted spirits in Bush's Boston campaign headquarters, says Gray. "Polls have a profound effect on people. People are really energized by the numbers," he says. The campaign office will do its part to close the point spread between Clinton and Bush and then push their candidate "over the top," Gray says...
...mostly as social companions. Archaeologist Josephine Flood believes that the dogs served as an object of affection and a child substitute in a society that killed babies it could not afford to feed (the dogs foraged for themselves; they were probably also used for hunting). The second, and more profound, breakthrough: for the first time, Australian Aborigines mounted stone points onto shafts to form spears...