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...everyday strains of daily life also take their toll on students' bodies. Some haul almost half their body weight in their book bags to and from class each day. Others succumb to e-mail addiction, spending hours glued to the computer screen, feverishly typing. Such repetitive strains can all be eased through massage...
Politicians often succumb to the constant pressure for a stirring personal anecdote. During his abortive run for the presidency in 1987, solidly suburban Senator Joseph Biden appropriated scenes from the coal-mining boyhood of British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock. To make a point about welfare dependency, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said his sister was once so dependent on handouts she would get "mad when the mailman [was] late with her check." In fact, she worked most of her life...
...doomed candidacies, including Steve Forbes ($43 million in '96), Ross Perot ($68 million in '92) and Senate candidate Michael Huffington ($28 million in '94). In the past congressional campaign, only 21 of the 145 biggest spenders eventually won seats. One problem for well-heeled candidates is that they sometimes succumb to hubris. In 1994 Millner turned off some rural Georgians by jokingly asking a local farmer, "Do you work for a living, or are you in farming?" What deep pockets can do for novice politicians is boost their familiarity and fund-raising chops for the next go-around. Forbes...
...This high-profile failure has observers questioning whether other Japanese banks, insurers and brokerage firms could succumb. One theory is that economic problems have drained the Japanese government and private sector of the ability to save such institutions with emergency cash infusions or through friendly takeovers. Many Japanese financial institutions have been laid low by the country's seven-year tumble in land and stock prices and resulting bad-loan crisis...
...trade sanctions and all the rest. The way to foster political liberalization and free market capitalism in the huge country is to somehow pump "Baywatch" into the homes of all its people. You know, a kind of 'Radio Free Asia' for the David-Hasselhoff-deprived. If China would just succumb to American pop culture like the rest of the world, my thinking went, it couldn't be long before it adopted our values as well...