Word: timing
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...tape. (Imagine if we had footage of Forbes eating caviar or McCain losing his cool.) The most telling moment in last Monday's debate grew out of Bush's earlier assertion that he was reading a biography of Dean Acheson. You might have thought he would then take the time to skim the dust jacket, at least. When CNN's Judy Woodruff asked what he had learned from Acheson, Bush neither placed the former Secretary of State in an Administration or with a policy, but blithely clutched at rote nostrums about "the incredible freedoms we understand in the great land...
Message: I'm winging it. This may satisfy Bush, but other people have grown concerned. After he grinned through his recent foreign-policy speech, callers to C-Span spent more time weighing in on "the alleged smirk," as Brian Lamb put it, than on his hard line on China. Last week a New Hampshire voter asked Bush, gingerly, if he were "intellectually curious." It's always better, Bush replied, to "be underestimated...
...with devoted Bushies, there was an admission that Bush's lackluster performances had raised the bar for subsequent debates (which he would clear), a concession that New Hampshire may go to McCain, and an acknowledgment of the smirk only to the extent that it would be gone by the time voters pay attention...
...sending them skittering in panic. "Down, Tess," she yells, to little effect. The guru takes her elbow. "We'll try to dispense with some of that energy," he says. Within 10 minutes, aided by a flexible wand and a set of arcane commands--Come bye, Away to me, Take time--he has woven girl, collie and ewes into a graceful choreography of pursuit and capture. The next time Katie calls "Down," Tess prostrates herself smartly. "Look at that," the guru exclaims. "I thought you said that dog didn't know how to lie down!" On the sidelines, the disciples cheer...
...month by the Center for a New American Dream shows that such holiday breakdowns are more common than I thought. Among the 1,015 who were surveyed, 58% are trying to "reconnect with the joyfulness of the holiday," by cutting down on their consumption. It is counterintuitive at this time of year to concentrate on doing less for our families, but redirecting that holiday energy offers real rewards. Families that manage it will have fewer toys but more time, less debt and more satisfaction...