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...story to every object they sell. "If a product is successfully tied to an idea, branding persuades people--whether they admit it to pollsters or even fully understand it themselves--to consume the idea by consuming the product," he writes. "A potent brand becomes a form of identity in shorthand...
...impression of American weakness. To punctuate the point, McCain persistently barks that Obama wants to meet with the Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a flagrant anti-Semite but a relatively powerless figurehead. Obama did say during a debate last summer that he would meet with foreign leaders without preconditions. "He shorthanded the answer," Senator Joe Biden recently said. Ever since, Obama has been creatively fuzzy when asked directly if he would meet with Ahmadinejad - and he has begun to point out that the real leaders of Iran are the clerics led by the Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, who controls Iran...
...culture, the culture of cruelty? School shootings are like plane crashes, rare but riveting for the primitive fears they evoke. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, the executioners of Columbine, gave that fear a face: cold-blooded, calculating, seeking immortality, dancing with the devil. They gave our kids the awful shorthand: You're not going to do a Columbine? Williams' friends asked. They even frisked him that morning before school...
...John F. Kennedy School of Government, which has been known for decades as the Kennedy School of Government, recently changed its shorthand moniker to the Harvard Kennedy School in order to emphasize its Harvard affiliation...
Democrats and Republicans sharply disagree on whether “socialized medicine” is a good idea, with Republicans having a more negative view of the term that has become shorthand for conservative criticism of the expanded role of government in health care, according to a new study. The results from the poll—part of a series of studies conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) on health care and social policy issues during each presidential election—found that 70 percent of Democrats see a socialized medical system as positive, while 70 percent...