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...George W. Bush brought up from Austin--loyalty, discretion and self-effacement--but his personal history is what really captures the President. "It isn't that Waspy 'Isn't that lovely?' kind of thing," says a source close to Gonzales, "but something the President feels in his heart and soul. He gets emotional about...
...above would create jobs, unlike Bush's rather indirect and speculative tax cuts, and they would have some social "security" benefits as well. But none are ideas to stir the soul. Democrats haven't done much soul stirring since the Kennedy era--and they haven't spent much time courting young people since then, either. (Their fixations on prescription drugs for the elderly and leaving Social Security alone are utter losers with nongraybeards.) If the Democrats want to think romantic as well as big, the obvious area is the environment. Several of the candidates have proposed dour, incremental "energy-independence...
...good point, but one not likely to prompt much soul searching among dermatologic surgeons or the aging baby boomers flocking to their offices. Asked what she was willing to do to stay looking young, one fiftysomething woman in Narins' waiting room promptly replied, "Whatever it takes--as long as it doesn't injure my health...
Bible-based investing may be as good for the evangelical soul as it is repugnant to the secular-humanist spirit. But is it good for the wallet? Timothy's Small Cap Value fund has gained about 0.4% annually over the past three years, while its Large/Mid-Cap Value is down an annual average of only about 1%. Those returns place both funds far ahead of the overall market and most funds in their categories...
...when I am up late working on a paper, by page 12 I can hear the truth breathing shallowly beneath the surface before I bury it in the conclusion. Every undergraduate longs in his heart of hearts to write something as nuanced, verbose, unreadable and inconclusive as his very soul; and some day, every undergraduate will. At the end of an education, are we not entitled to at least one manifesto? After all our tiresome discursiveness, do we even dare...