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...they believe? Focus groups are more reliable, but they are poison to spontaneity. They can tell a candidate a lot about what the public thinks it wants to hear but nothing at all about how to lead. And the public has begun to catch on. "People understand what shrink-wrapped language sounds like," says Bob Shrum, who was Gore's consultant in 2000 and is Kerry's for 2004. "They want to feel that politicians are speaking directly to them, without marketing or intermediaries. This was a real strength Bush and McCain had in 2000. They didn't talk like...
...Matrix and its spin-offs their appeal is that the characters look so damn stylish once they plug into the network. Keanu Reeves' fight scenes are the more compelling for his dramatically swirling coat, and with Carrie-Anne Moss's character Trinity looking as if she's been shrink-wrapped into her black cat suit, her punches have more pop. (If The Matrix is any guide, women in the future will need a weapons-grade workout regimen...
...this magnitude." The pain intensified last week, when the company reported a loss of $527 million in the first quarter of 2003 - its tenth straight losing quarter. Sales slumped a devastating 30% in the quarter to $3.2 billion, and the company predicted the worldwide market for mobile systems would shrink "more than 10%" in 2003. But Svanberg, looking tanned and fit, managed to simultaneously break the bad news and soothe the markets, in part by announcing a whopping 14,000 new layoffs by 2004. "We remain determined to return to profit during 2003," he said, and Ericsson stock rose...
...more damaging practices, like the abuse of migrant workers, to fester openly. What ties Reefer Madness together is Schlosser's passionate belief that America is deeply neurotic, a nation divided against itself into a sunny, whitewashed mainstream and a lusty, angry, deeply denied subconscious. He just might be the shrink America needs. His next book will take on the prison system, and it will complete what amounts to a three-volume history of the underbelly of late--20th century America. "In 1970 the prison population was just dropping," Schlosser says. "Last week they announced it was over 2 million...
...when they formed in 1989, they were actually a hardcore punk band, reflecting the German scene that surrounded them. It wasn’t until their second album Shrink that they gradually took on more diverse influences, which ranged from jazz to experimental electronica from the likes of Autechre and Oval...