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These two words (the name of Clinton's chief campaign guru) are shorthand for the proposition that Clinton's apparently winning re-election strategy is essentially to become a Republican. Clinton's conservative opponents see this as both an explanation and a consolation: even if he wins, they are prepared to claim a moral victory. There is obviously something to this, but there is a large pshaw factor as well. "Capture the center" is the usual game in politics, and Republicans have played it skillfully over the years. Once again, there seems to be a feeling that for a Democrat...
Late at night, while most of Washington sleeps, two political strategists are jaw-boning on the phone. Polishing the next big speech, "war gaming" the next five clashes with their opponent, they argue in a kind of rapid-fire code, a political shorthand developed during a 17-year partnership. One of the two strategists happens to be the President of the U.S. The other, a banty, cocksure New Yorker named Dick Morris, is the most influential--and infamous--political consultant on the planet...
Rudenstine's report does fail to take into account the problem inherent in the use of group identities to claim diversity. Diversity, as understood by the men Rudenstine cites, is the representation of varied intellectual perspectives, which only crudely conform to the group categories now used as shorthand for "representation...
...Thiede's findings has intriguing implications. In three places on the Magdalen Papyrus, the name of Jesus is written as KS, an abbreviation of the Greek word Kyrios, or Lord. Thiede contends that this shorthand is proof that early Christians considered Jesus a nomen sacrum (sacred name), much the way devout Jews emphasized the holiness of God's name by shortening it to the tetragrammaton YHWH. Thus the perception of Jesus as divine was not a later development of Christian faith but a firm belief of the early church...
Dole does speak in public as if he's translating a passage from Morse code into Gregg shorthand, but I don't think that has much to do with his having grown up on the Plains. After all, Senator Arlen Specter was also raised right there in Russell, Kansas, and when Specter reflects on some incidents in his life--say, his bullyboy cross-examination of Anita Hill--he must suspect that he might have been overburdened with the gift...