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...attribute we don't need, although commonly associated with greatness in a leader, is empathy. Politicians--including the two at the top--tell the great American middle class that its problems are not its fault. Or that, whoever may be at fault, the problems can be solved if only we can agree on a tax cut. When in the second presidential debate the candidates were asked what "sacrifices" Americans should expect to make in order to address the financial crisis, John McCain promised to "examine every agency and every bureaucracy of government" and "eliminate those that aren't working," though...
...told by the very nice election-board workers that in-person early voters come in two varieties: the superinformed and the people Obama supporters pick up off the streets and throw into a van. You can tell the difference mainly by smell. The secretary who sits by the front door told me that I wouldn't see many old people, since they like to vote on Election Day so they can see their friends, get breakfast afterward and make a day of it. This made me think that we should hold elections for old people monthly, letting them vote...
From what I could tell, early voters are the best-informed, smartest, most responsible members of society. Twenty percent of them were supporting their candidate even before he decided to run; 12% planned to spend Nov. 4 volunteering at the polls. When I asked if they wanted to vote now for the next American Idol winner, 80% told me they don't watch the show. Two graduated from high school a year early. One was voting early so she "would be able to avoid crowds and take my time and read all the propositions carefully." These people were making such...
Memorable Claxton images include a young Charlie Parker in the Claxton home, John Coltrane in the Guggenheim Museum and Art Pepper walking up a steep hill on his release from prison. Claxton's last assignment was a cover portrait of Bob Dylan for the just-released album Tell Tale Signs...
...like to tell the story of a Chinese manufacturer that was getting feedback about its washing machines' clogging up drains. The company investigated and found that the machines worked just fine but that rural consumers were using them to wash potatoes. What would an American company do to solve this problem? Call in a p.r. firm to tell consumers that washing vegetables voids their warranty? The Chinese company had a better idea: it added a vegetable-wash cycle to its machines. We call this innovating with ingenuity--and no government program can teach this...