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...that Clinton's great political gift was his ability to mediate between his friends in the intellectual elite and his friends in Arkansas. "He has tried to present the ideas of the elite to ordinary people, and he has tried to present ordinary people to the elite," observes Ralph Whitehead, journalism professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. "He can speak wonk, and he can speak American." But that is too rare a skill in his present circle. "On the campaign trail, he had Jim Carville, who had no trouble making himself understood in barrooms. He needs people...
Much Republican rhetoric posits a model of the family that is becoming rarer in reality. Almost all family values have to do with children, with how to make them happy and give them safe, decent lives. The real debate Americans should be having, says social historian Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, concerns "what all adults would give up to secure a childhood of innocence and freedom." Every expert and practically every citizen agree that children are better off being raised in a family with two parents. For various reasons, that is less and less the model of American child rearing...
Levine's writing style is fluid and lucid. She fills the pages with witty and original analyses of interviews, overheard conversations, films, comic strips, songs, comedians, television programs, psychological/scientific studies, magazine articles and books. She covers a range of female personalities from Madonna to Mary Beth Whitehead to Ann Landers to strangers in the supermarket...
...Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy Dennis F. Thompson, a close friend of Rudenstine, was seriously considered for the provost job, sources said. Rudenstine may have turned him down because he lacks extensive experience with any one Harvard faculty, one source said...
...Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy Dennis Frank Thompson and his family paid a visit to President Neil L. Rudenstine's house as they had done on many Christmas Eves at Princeton...