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...deficiencies of character. As a result, while Kerry leads Bush on most domestic issues, voters turn sour when asked about Kerry the man. In last week's TIME poll, Kerry's biggest deficit versus Bush was in "sticking to his positions." Only 37% of registered voters in the survey said Kerry does that, compared with 84% for Bush...
Better make it two eyes. In a 2003 survey by Fidelity Investments, 56% of pension managers who invest in nontraditional vehicles like hedge funds conceded they did not fully comprehend the risks. Those risks include the high hurdle of arguably extortionate fees and long periods during which you cannot get your money back, in addition to potential bet-the-farm borrowing...
...full time spend an hour and a half a day on household chores, in contrast to just 45 minutes daily for working men. Still, viewed historically, this isn't so bad. Dads are actually spending about 50% more time on housework than they did 25 years ago, according to surveys by the Families & Work Institute. Men seem to be picking up, literally, where women are leaving off: the same study found that women are putting in less time. (This survey, which differed in several respects from the larger Labor Department study, calculated men's contribution as two hours...
...same might be said of Huckabees. Beneath a veneer of pseudo-intellectualism, the movie is, at heart, a joke. The plot seems to unfold in a parallel universe, a world where every citizen is required to take a college survey course in philosophy and then spend the rest of their lives discussing it. Mark Wahlberg, as a nihilist firefighter, is introduced having a fight with his girlfriend; instead of bickering over who did or didn’t do the dishes, he is trying to convince her that life is meaningless...
...after the Watergate disaster. Midterm elections in 1974 left the party with 43 fewer House seats (down to a third of the chamber), 6 fewer governorships (down to only 12), and 21 percent fewer state legislators. Robert Teeter, a Detroit pollster hired then by the Republican National Committee to survey the wreckage, was candid in his report: “We are no longer a minority party. We have achieved the status of a minor party...