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...went to Kansas City, Mo., last week to watch Peter Hart conduct a focus group of more or less undecided voters. Focus groups are a powerful political aphrodisiac: civilians tell the wizards how to rub them the right way. But they are also an insidious reversal of the political process, turning followers into leaders. Watching Hart, a pioneer and master of the idiom, trying to elicit responses from a surly group of citizens, I began to wonder whether focus groups have outlived their usefulness. The group was almost entirely predictable. They said Bush was a regular guy and Kerry seemed...
Even Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has cultivated an image of unyielding toughness, seems shaken. Beslan provided devastating proof that the core of his macho approach to politics--his promise to rub out secessionists--was nothing but empty words. And so he reached for a safety blanket of his own last week, announcing a series of moves aimed at consolidating political power in the Kremlin. Under Putin's plan, the 89 regional governors will henceforth be appointed, not elected. Russia's parliament, the Duma, will be elected only from party lists, not from constituencies. As most parties represented...
What about décolletage for women over 50? I think it can go too far. I think if you wear interesting jewelry and get a little color--a little tan--or rub on some bronzing cream, that can make a world of difference. I think that...
There are the chess-players, the guitar-players and the mimes that perform their silent acts by the pit. There are the bands playing while a crowd of Harvard students and locals mesh together. There are the coffee shops, where Pulitzer Prize winners and distinguished professors rub shoulders with the homeless...
...message to the U.S.'s allies. "The more I look at those leaders who come to see me--and I look them in the eye and say, 'We're not wavering, and I expect you to be with us'--the more likely it is that we're going to rub terror out, and the more likely it is that the coalitions stay intact," Bush said in 2001. "I'm not going to relent. People may get tired of all this, but I'm not going to. Because I understand--I truly understand the call...