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Once upon a time in the U.S., politicians could be trusted to act in the best interest of America’s youth. It has long been conventional wisdom that candidates for office would be rewarded at the polls for dedicating energy, words, financial resources, and even political votes that served the interest of “our country’s children.” That time has passed. Unfortunately, America’s youth is among the least organized of the special interests competing for the attention of lawmakers—perhaps, shockingly, even less organized then animal...
...dining experience, combining classic Sichuan food with Western-inspired settings. The result was South Beauty, one of the nation's first restaurant chains, which has $25 million in sales and more than 3,000 employees in 20 locations. Zhang, 47, is eyeing Europe and the U.S., again rebuking usual wisdom. She will shun any location in an urban Chinatown...
...extreme. Law firms participating in the same recruitment interviews are offering upwards of $125,000 a year to new graduates. Presumably that is the market value of intelligence and judgment honed by three years at Harvard Law. But the professors’ true estimate of their students’ wisdom is revealed by their belief that the same students will be swayed unduly by the romance of working in remote locations and war zones and being paid a third of what their classmates make. Not to mention being looked down on by their professors and many of their classmates...
...However, Bissell does not subscribe to the conventional wisdom that a writer should be constrained by his own personal experience...
...things that's fascinating about Patterson is his total lack of interest in received wisdom; another is his complete confidence in his own judgment. With 1992's Along Came a Spider, the first novel in his Alex Cross series, Patterson knew he'd written a best seller--so he took control of the way it was designed and marketed. When his publisher told him it wasn't interested in running a TV campaign, he called in a few favors at J. Walter Thompson and shot the ad with his own money. He wasn't jazzed about Spider's cover...