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...eruption of the flag controversy is a glaring symptom of a distressing change in American politics over the past decade: the way that pit-bull negative ads have led to simplistic, visceral posturing by candidates at the expense of more substantive approaches to real problems. "It's a good issue to define your opponent," said Republican strategist Ed Rollins. "If your opponent is for flag burning, he's got to go through a very sophisticated explanation...
Doctors reflecting on the case note that Alzheimer's is difficult to diagnose. One symptom is sufficient mental deterioration to impair the ability to make decisions. "He has to claim she made her decision competently," observes Dr. Joanne Lynn, professor at George Washington University. "But the diagnosis of Alzheimer's is almost incompatible with that claim...
...certain language that is a symptom of the violence of the culture," Finley insists. "If I talk about a woman being raped, I have to use the language of the perpetrators." While her wild orations about menstruation and excrement have been known to rattle even shockproof veterans of New York City's downtown art scene, they have also won her a raft of admiring reviews. When she performed at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in January, the Star Tribune used words like heartfelt and moving to describe We Keep Our Victims Ready, a verse piece about the consequences...
Those afflicted with acute Eastern-centricism also have the annoying symptom of thinking that the word "Iowa" is hysterically funny...
Leland said he believes televangelism is no longer just a Southern sociological phenomenon, but a symptom of much spiritual displacement in modern America. People under the influence of television ministries are not so much foolish as lonely and well-intentioned, Leland added...